21 Mar
Posted by scottc as Mobile Computing, PDA and Smartphone, Palm
Things just can’t get any worse for Palm. The once mighty Palm has been struggling for years to get the attention of smartphone buyers. But people just don’t care anymore. Their products are outdated, lack features and the competition has much cooler products.
Q3 2007 was a disaster; A loss of $31.5 million, lackluster worldwide sales of their Centro (a little under 850 thousand units shipped) and STILL no new killer product on the shelves.
For the past year I’ve been hearing how they’ll "soon have that new phone ready", and what a challenge it will be to sell them, but I’d say they have 6 months at most to show us what they are doing before someone calls shenanigans.
A Palm(pilot) was my second PDA (after the Psion LZ64) so I still have a warm spot in my heart for them. But it hurts to see how they’ve taken a company that used to have so much potential, and driven it into the ground. When you are up against not one, but at least five companies that DO know how to get great products into the market, then you’d better come up with something really, really good.
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