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By: Palm’s Road to Nowhere — Is It Really Worth $1B?

Palm’s Road to Nowhere — Is It Really Worth $1B? — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:41:19 +0000

[...] December 2009: For Palm, Yet another Gut-wrenching Crisis [...]

By: Windows Phone 7 Is Impressive, But 3 Challenges Remain for Microsoft – GigaOM

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:13:56 +0000

[...] producing a knockout mobile operating system won’t be enough to get back in the game, as Palm can tell you. For Microsoft to challenge platforms like Android and iPhone, it will have to address these three [...]

By: Dell Faces Hang-ups With Android Smartphone – GigaOM

Dell Faces Hang-ups With Android Smartphone – GigaOM — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:58:42 +0000

[...] But Dell faces an uphill battle as it comes to market in the U.S. It will be tough to draw attention to the Mini 3 among an ever-increasing number of Android handsets, and taking the spotlight away from Google’s new Nexus One and — to a lesser extent — Motorola’s Droid from Verizon Wireless won’t be easy. Perhaps its biggest challenge, though, will be drawing data-hungry customers to AT&T’s network, which has struggled to handle the congestion of iPhone users. The Mini 3 will not only have to be a compelling device, it will have to be heavily promoted if AT&T and Dell are going to lure users away from the competition — because a good product alone isn’t enough to secure market share in the space, as Palm can tell you. [...]

By: atics

atics — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:09:38 +0000

3com or cisco will acquire palm :D

By: FB Telephone Services — Blog — Is there hope for Palm in the 2010 smartphone wars?

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:59:53 +0000

[...] recent GigaOm post points out the many problems Palm is facing right now – a lack of consumer and developer [...]

By: Why Early 2010 Will be Critical for Palm – GigaOM

Why Early 2010 Will be Critical for Palm – GigaOM — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:23:20 +0000

[...] and it must continue to improve the webOS as it fills the shelves of its app store. Palm may be the Jack Bauer of the mobile industry, lurching from crisis to crisis, but what it really needs is a high-profile launch through Verizon [...]

By: McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Observations: Devices - December 27, 2009

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:01:16 +0000

[...] For Palm, Yet Another Wrenching Crisis [...]

By: gbp

gbp — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:52:13 +0000

hmm, that's interesting. Part of the reason why PALM will sell Pre and pixi on Verizon in few weeks.

By: D. P.

D. P. — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:17:45 +0000

Ad spending does not affect gross margins.

Their gross margins fell because ASPs dropped - i.e. Sprint has been paying them less per Pre sold through.

Ad spending did increase (from ~$55m to ~74m) despite management's insistence a year ago that they were aiming for sub $100m operating costs.

Good thing Goldman found chumps at Capital World to bail out the Chubby Wombat's sand castle.

By: gbp

gbp — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:14:12 +0000

Agree with the mindshare point but please take Windows mobile7 out from that list. PALM's issue is marketing. They were timid in going against any phone. The platform is best for productivity and simplicity. The inferior SDK and missing gaming support are over hyped. The phone is the best phone for productivity. While I am not counting any other platform out, PALM will slowly dent RIMM and Windows sales next year. RIM is one trick pony. Microsoft is too late too slow.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:28:43 +0000

Yes. And with Droid, Verizon is no longer the savior it would have been to Palm, since nobody will care about Pre when it arrives there. Pixi may get some attention, since it is small and cute. As for a sale of the company, why would someone else try to build on WebOS? Why not just build on Android, or even Windows Mobile (MS must be willing to put close to a Palm purchase price into partner marketing)?

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:24:55 +0000

Palm's current team of engineers is new, but their old engineers were either slackers, terribly managed or both. No sense blaming it on marketing - they just built stuff SLOWLY.

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By: Jacob Varghese

Jacob Varghese — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:46:53 +0000

I think the Palm fans are missing one very important point. It's not about who has the most features. Apple has thought us that. Palm is losing mindshare to Apple, Blackberry, Android and soon Windows Mobile 7.

Fortunately, it's still early in the game. I'm not ready to write them off just yet but you'd be crazy to be putting more money into them.

I think they haven't clearly identified their voice just yet. Who is there target market?

By: whynance

whynance — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:58:05 +0000

Everyone here put up some great and thought-provoking comments. For me, I found it funny how the analysts and experts were dissing RIMM for the last few weeks and 95% of them were telling investors to sell of their shares before they posted earnings (along with Palm) last Thursday after the bell.
Fortunately, I liked RIMM at $55/share only a few weeks ago where I picked it up. Now, at $70/share, it feels kind of good to see what the analysts have to say about their terrible advice.
For Palm, sure it doesn’t have the fame and fortune of the iPhone or Blackberry but it hasn’t had the history of those two either. For the gentlemen who enjoys the Palm’s thrashing because it could very well drive the price down, I agree, as this could be an ample opportunity to get Palm’s stock for free.
However, it’s still very speculative as it’s been shown that iPhone absolutely kicks the crap out of all the other smartphones. But, I have not heard ONE person who owns a new version of the Palm say anything bad about it yet so…I’m still not going to believe the experts who say the Palm is a terrible company since they’re usually wrong anyhow.
Do your own research on it but I’m still not ready to throw Palm under the bus quite yet.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:02:19 +0000

At this point the only way of saving these devices is to go GSM/unlocked at around $249.95

if not they will be forgotten by early summer '10