Cuz doesn't matter whether it's the engineers or the suits, in the end, 
to us mere users, it was Palm.

On 3/6/2010 9:21 PM, Craig Froehle wrote:
>
>
> How is this like your story?
>
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:31 PM, John Messeder <[email protected]
> <mailto:jmesseder%40comcast.net>> wrote:
>  > Thing is, to those of us less plugged in or paying less attention, it's
>  > like a fellow told a credit window associate at Sears a bunch of
> years back.
>  >      She said she was sorry for the inconvenience, but she was not
>  > responsible for setting the policy, and he said,
>  >      Then please find me someone who is responsible because right now
>  > you *are* Sears & Roebuck, and I'm an unhappy customer.
>  >
>  > On 3/6/2010 8:21 PM, Craig Froehle wrote:
>  >>
>  >> Palm was VERY active in trying to replace Palm OS. But, senior
>  >> management got in the way of the engineers through a series of
>  >> corporate upheavals, including spinning off PalmSource, licensing Palm
>  >> OS, and merging PalmSource with ACCESS (an Asian company). Through
>  >> all that, the engineers at both Palm & PalmSource were quite busy
>  >> trying to gin up a new OS based on Linux. However, the marketing and
>  >> corporate elements of the companies were more focused on other things,
>  >> so the constant undulation in the company frustrated the technical
>  >> efforts.
>  >>
>  >> That's what I've gotten 2nd- and 3rd-hand, but if there are any former
>  >> (or current) Palm employees on here who want to elaborate, please, be
>  >> my guest.
>  >
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