Johnc

Is Palm Management Doing Enough to Get Back on Track?

The problem with Palm is that they lost focus and stopped making improvements on a great product...the Treo. People will pay up for a great product (note Apple iPods and iPhones, RIMM products) but will only commit to a platform if there is demonstrated committment to incremental improvement (bug fixes and feature enhancements). A Palm with Windows Mobile? Palm has little control over the software, hasn't come up with any great new "must have" features and is not a cost leader. Hard to see how a consumer products company that is "neither here nor there" can prosper. The sports analogy is misleading. A sports team is protected by a league (TV revenue share, for example) and there will always be die hard fans. If Palm disappeared tomorrow, there would be sadness (I loved my Treo 650 to pieces, literally) but the smartphone market will hardly skip a beat.