Comments on: Palm Pre beats expectations, drops WiMo to focus on WebOS

By: e_arni

e_arni — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:01:20 +0000

it’s NOT just a matter of taking a flawed OS and replacing it’s kernel with linux to make it work nicely. and by the way – symbians userland, APIs and UI are crap as well, so no chance on that.

please forget about the idea that you can just take two things, put them into a box, shake it, and everything will fall gently into place. that’s not how computers work.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:02:37 +0000

Symbian is dying. It is an old platform that can not survive in the long run against these new nimble players and platforms.

True. But what about the various other Linux/Solaris/BSD options? Take Symbian, and replace it’s kernel a modern kernel, and suddenly you have something that could compete.

The anal-yst you quote is laughable – “[Q1 results] well above expectations” – what a joke. What in the world is he basing this on? Palm expected a clear homerun against the iPhone, as did many investors thus the crazy run up in the stock, yet they barely got to first. They wouldn’t even release their actual Pre numbers.

They did, did they? I assume you have documentation of your claims? Well, don’t be shy, we want to see it.

By: FreeRange

FreeRange — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:45:03 +0000

Symbian is dying. It is an old platform that can not survive in the long run against these new nimble players and platforms.

The anal-yst you quote is laughable – “[Q1 results] well above expectations” – what a joke. What in the world is he basing this on? Palm expected a clear homerun against the iPhone, as did many investors thus the crazy run up in the stock, yet they barely got to first. They wouldn’t even release their actual Pre numbers.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:56:43 +0000

You forgot Symbian and Windows Mobile. Symbian still has a lot of market share. Windows Mobile appears to be on life support.

By: Links 18/09/2009: Palm Dumps Windows Mobile for Linux, Moblin 2 is Coming | Boycott Novell

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:48:44 +0000

[...] Palm Pre beats expectations, drops WiMo to focus on WebOS Part of that strategy involves dumping any distractions, including both the company’s original Palm OS and the Windows Mobile partnership that Palm forged with Microsoft in 2006, a year before Rubinstein arrived. Palm’s support for Windows Mobile helped nearly double Microsoft’s market share at the time. [...]

By: Berend Schotanus

Berend Schotanus — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:46:13 +0000

Well, isn’t that great: the mobile game is between iPhone, Android and Palm. Sure Palm is not nr.1 but who would have expected them to be in the game anyway?

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:40:58 +0000

FYI – I got to play with a Palm Pre that one of the sales reps at Best Buy owned. It’s actually fairly nice, it works well, and while I don’t think it’s quite as good as an IPhone, it’s damned close.

The only major issue I had with it, is it’s nearly 5 minute boot time. I’m serious. Start up is that slow. Hopefully Palm can fix that in a future update.

By: august

august — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:20:01 +0000

“…which erased the hardware advantage Palm expected to maintain, dramatically reshaping inventor’s hopes.”

Is that supposed to be “investor’s”?