My first thought when I saw that title? "Palm has retail stores"?

Thursday brought news that the company’s 34 stores–eight Palm-branded locations and 26 stores that were inside Airport Wireless outposts–will have to go by the end of the current quarter. "We continue to focus our company around core business initiatives and are consolidating more resources behind fewer programs in order to compete most effectively and build world-class, category-defining mobile solutions. We have therefore made the decision to close our retail stores," the company said in a statement regarding the retail move.

Source: news.com

I’m guessing that they were playing a little game of "me too", trying to copy the success Apple has seen with their retail stores.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Palm will put the savings back into some R&D, perhaps we’ll even see them make a new PDA that doesn’t look like it was designed back in 1998. It’s been a terrible few years for them and it’s going to take a miracle to bring them back to life.