Yes, enjoy your Android until you learn that your entire life is in Google's database. Android is not a panacea - really ticks me off when people pick a single platform (for whatever) and insist it is the only way to go. You love Android and hate Palm. Fine. I wait for the day when you hate Android and love some other product.
Edward Fultz [email protected] (978) 807-4225 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold M. Goldner" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2010 9:37:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Treo] HP CEO: "We didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business" Businesses are not supposed to be run like non-profits. If you cannot compete successfully and make money, your product is not going to survive. Let's not get all doe-eyed and sentimental here, Palm failed as an entity because it couldn't bring its product to market in a way which sustained the company. The technology highway is littered with the carcasses of companies that couldn't sustain their business model. Northgate, one of the early IBM cloners, made keyboards that are among the finest (I still have two of them), gone. Quarterdeck, who made the miniscule amounts of memory we used to have available to us do amazing things, gone. Central Point Software, who made PC utilities that nobody else had before everybody else started making them, swallowed up. AST, WordPerfect Corporation, Samna Word, Commodore, Osborne, need I go on? The idea may be great, WebOS, the Pre, the Pixi, the Pluses, but they couldn't move the company from its tendency to bleed money. That's regardless of what state HP is in. The only viable option to liquidation was a buy out, and the best buyer saw the asset as the IP, not the smartphones. I think business schools will study the entire life-cycle of Palm from it's U.S. Robotics days onward as a lesson in how not to run a company or a brand. As for me, I'm glad I jumped off the bus and onto the Android bandwagon before purchasing an orphaned product. (And now I'm putting my two 755p's and T|X on ebay; the train has definitely left the station). Harold [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
