One idea that I had is for Palm to make a line of Pre's that run Android or Windows Mobile 7. Having a choice of a different OS worked pretty well for the Treo.
-- Sent from my Palm Pre Plus On Apr 24, 2010 8:16 AM, Don Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: And Craig would be right! As he has pointed out, people have been predicting the doom of Palm Computing since the Pilot 1000 was released. Palm has a history of defining an industry and then letting things slip away, and then doing it all again. While it COULD be that this is the end for Palm (just as it COULD be that RIM is about to go out of business, or Toyota, or *any* company), it just seems like the tech media loves to find someone to dump on, and all too often it’s been Palm. Just start at the top and work down: RIM is headed for bankruptcy or sale!! Nope; too powerful; too entrenched. Apple is headed for bankruptcy or sale!! Nope; to pretty. Google is headed for bankruptcy or sale!! Nope; too world-dominating. Palm is headed for bankruptcy or sale!! Yeah! That’s it! That’s our target! It *feels* bad for Palm right now. It *feels* like we’re in the eye of the hurricane and are about to get blown over. I don’t know that any of us has any idea, though what the reality or intent at Palm is right now. Perhaps they like it like that! SSFM (that’s Speaking Strictly for Myself), Palm needs to get its poop in a group in two areas: 1) adding back in the things the Treo/Centro could do that WebOS still can’t and 2) dramatically upping the hardware build quality for non-Verizon users. If, *suddenly*, Palm released a Pre Plus Plus that was as solid as the HTC hardware (hmmmmmmmmmm), with Sprint kicking in tethering for free, and all the little touches that they seem to be ignoring that they *already did* in the Treo/Centro (and about which I’ve complained), I would probably close my ear to the siren song of the Evo. The “new” Palm seemed headed in the right direction at first, with frequent incremental improvements that filled in the holes. Some of the holes are still there, though, and so it starts to feel a little like Microsoft who has some issues still in Outlook that date back to the late 1990’s, or the old Palm that rested on its laurels (what are laurels, anyway – must look that up) until RIM and Apple and Android took the market completely (in the US, of course; still don’t understand the rest of the world’s fascination with Symbian and Nokia). My $0.02US. COME ON PALM!!! Cheers, Don From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alli Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Nothing since Thursday? Oh, don't say that! You'll get Craig all in a lather. On 4/24/2010 9:39 AM, Charles G. "Chuck Boulais, CLU, MCP wrote: > The calm before the storm? It’s pretty clear that Palm is nearing the end . . . > > Chuck B. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
