Wednesday, May 11, 2005
pa1mOne Finally Figuring It Out?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 07:00 AM
http://brighthand.com/article/palmOne_Announces_Mobile_Manager_Category
"Mobile managers are designed for customers who are eager to take full advantage of the trend toward "digital everything" -- from documents and email to music, images and video, as standalone files or in organized folders." Ed Hardy at Brighthand talks a bit about the pa1mOne LifeDrive, which is a PDA with an integrated 4GB hard drive. While the specs are impressive, I do question how many PDA users will go for a device like this. We'll have to see. That isn't the point though. The point is, why, after 7+ years is pa1m just now figuring out that people want an all-in-one device? "..."digital everything" -- from documents and email to music, images and video, as standalone files or in organized folders."
Welcome to our world pa1m, where from 2000 and the first Pocket PCs, they have always been about digital everything. Technically you could go back even further with pure Windows CE devices like the Palm-Sized PC and Handheld PC starting in 1996.
"In studying customer trends, we found that some people want to carry dozens of documents and hundreds of songs while others want to carry a thousand-plus photos and enjoy videos," said Page Murray, palmOne vice president of marketing."
I'd like to see those studies. The footnotes might have something like "Property of Microsoft, November 1998" on it. ;) So to answer Mr. Hardy's question "Is pa1mOne Trying to Create New Category of Mobile-Computing Products?" the answer is no. They are still playing catch-up. What innovation will pa1m think of next? I bet they are cooking up something special, like being able to assign multiple categories to a single item. Or maybe they will go out on a limb and release a PDA based on Cobalt, the OS PalmSource released over a year ago. 8O
"Mobile managers are designed for customers who are eager to take full advantage of the trend toward "digital everything" -- from documents and email to music, images and video, as standalone files or in organized folders." Ed Hardy at Brighthand talks a bit about the pa1mOne LifeDrive, which is a PDA with an integrated 4GB hard drive. While the specs are impressive, I do question how many PDA users will go for a device like this. We'll have to see. That isn't the point though. The point is, why, after 7+ years is pa1m just now figuring out that people want an all-in-one device? "..."digital everything" -- from documents and email to music, images and video, as standalone files or in organized folders."
Welcome to our world pa1m, where from 2000 and the first Pocket PCs, they have always been about digital everything. Technically you could go back even further with pure Windows CE devices like the Palm-Sized PC and Handheld PC starting in 1996.
"In studying customer trends, we found that some people want to carry dozens of documents and hundreds of songs while others want to carry a thousand-plus photos and enjoy videos," said Page Murray, palmOne vice president of marketing."
I'd like to see those studies. The footnotes might have something like "Property of Microsoft, November 1998" on it. ;) So to answer Mr. Hardy's question "Is pa1mOne Trying to Create New Category of Mobile-Computing Products?" the answer is no. They are still playing catch-up. What innovation will pa1m think of next? I bet they are cooking up something special, like being able to assign multiple categories to a single item. Or maybe they will go out on a limb and release a PDA based on Cobalt, the OS PalmSource released over a year ago. 8O
