-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael S. Lax wrote: > > > I'm not sure I agree; I would not have purchased a Treo on my own (my firm > bought it) because of the screen. Having 2/3rds the screen space on a > device that's significantly bigger than the Tungsten (and not much smaller > than a Tungsten/Razr combo) didn't make a lot of sense to me. A number of > existing Treo users may like having a device that brings these features > back, and more users who have not looked at the Treo because of the small > screen may now consider it. I don't know how much of Palm's resources were > focused on this product, but given the release of several new Treo's in the > last several months it would not seem to have stopped them from developing > new devices.
I disagree. Each of the recent releases has been only a minor improvement over what came before so any resources used for other things, especially a product without a clear market, are resources not used for real innovation. This became especially clear to me this week when I had to switch from a 680 back to a 650 after my 680 died (it's stuck in a hotsync loop as if there's a stuck key). The 650 has less memory and lousy bluetooth compared to the 680, but little else is substantively different. And I'd forgotten how good the 650's stock battery is. Palm needs something today that grabs headlines, as the iPhone announcement did. And then they need to deliver on it. When I first got a Treo 270 it was vastly ahead of anything else on the market. But now even the latest Palm devices are on par with what other vendors sell. Palm seems to have lost their edge in both perception and technology. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRl2oaKyvi1v8SpM5AQIT6gP6Av2kwtzl1+JKWtOuSlYNTVF9ej3WYjv7 a27g2BZ+NoIPz+N3CKocsakFqZLn9HuGighnFupAzDjGZ4nhbDkoCeuuSk3P6wkb GiKBxDMOzZG64AQN99hoD98MdOJ5CK9jrq88/9bWSQi3d3TeDI0km5EoFEsqsyZh ccl0C4qIfhM= =8zoO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
