So does this mean that superwaba is dead too? or soon to be? Dean-O
--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Lee Church <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Lee Church <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Palm speak > To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 2:42 PM > Hmmm.. > And how many PDAs were sold to compute sea tides, display a > sky map, or survey a cave? And how many consumers are > accessing Facebook? It's a game of numbers, and the > realistic question is "do you want to be selling > thousands of units for specialized applications" or do > you want to sell 100's of thousands as phone/PDA. > > The Palm OS was only being sold in any volume by Palm, so > if Palm was in trouble (and they were), so by extension was > Palm OS. It's interesting to blame Palm, but it was > Access that purchased Palm Source and promised great new > things would be coming quickly. > > The market has evolved, as all markets do. Jeff and Donna > showed the right way with the original Palm Pilot, and then > later when they had the 1st converged device at Handspring. > But the "fire in the belly" that it takes to do > really great innovative products seems to have been drained > from all Palm-related entities as the core products and OS > have stagnated. Even the Palm development community, which > once numbered in the thousands, and turned out new products > by the hundreds every day, has dropped to only a handful of > full-time, hard-core, diehards. > > ____________________________________________ > Lee Church > www.mobitechsystems.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Luc Le Blanc [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:47 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: re: Palm speak > > > Palm CEO Ed Colligan said Wednesday morning at the > Thomas Wiesel > > Technology and Telecom Conference in San Francisco: > > > "The Palm OS is officially dead, having been on > life support for > > nearly five years. > > > Actually, wasn't it Palm itself that was on life > support, keeping itself busing selling, buying and reselling > its OS instead of expanding it and designing new devices? > > Hail the new smartphone. Before, we could buy a simple PDA > and perform tasks such as computing sea tides, displaying a > sky map or surveying a cave. But who cares about such > frivolous taks, now that we can connect instantly to > Facebook ;) > > > Luc Le Blanc > -- > For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, please see > http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ > > > -- > For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, please see > http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
