Palm is actually a pretty small company, so they are definitely punching above their weight. What I've seen so far, though, indicates that they are tight and focused company, with a new CEO who definitely gets it. They are only building one product now: WebOS phones, and they are all focused on building the best product possible. If anyone can create a viable iPhone competitor, it's them. And I like the idea of using open standards for building apps, rather than proprietary languages and APIs. That's what attracted me to Palm over other opportunities.
- Josh On Fri Feb 5, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Karsten Silz wrote: > On Feb 5, 4:44 pm, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: >> They need alliance with other big players - wonder if Palm and, say, >> Amazon could converge on app store synergy somehow? IOW, Palm needs a >> more vibrant app store story. > > I think Palm is too small to compete with Apple, Blackberry, Google, > Nokia and maybe a revived Microsoft all by itself. It seems that you > need to attract developers and provide easy access to contents (like > iTunes and the store), and this favors big players. From Sep-Nov 2009 > (strange quarter limits, BTW), they shipped 783k phones and sold 573k > of them. Now this doesn't include December, so let's say that from > Oct-Dec 2009 they shipped a million phones. Blackberry shipped more > than ten millions, Apple close to 9 mio plus maybe 4 mio iPod > Touches. Given those numbers, I'm not surprised that they had trouble > attracting developers with about 1,000 apps in their store on Jan 1, > 2010 (http://www.precentral.net/app-catalog-hits-1000-apps). > > I just hope they don't get bought by Microsoft, since they totally > botched the Danger acquisition ("Sidekick"). My money is on > Blackberry since their OS is built around email and is not a general > purpose OS like the Palm Pre, Android or iPhone. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > _______________ Josh Marinacci JoshOnDesign.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
