Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Palm Kills the Foleo
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 06:00 PM
http://blog.palm.com/palm/2007/09/a-message-to-pa.html
"In the course of the past several months, it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform design and a single focus for our platform development efforts. To that end, and after careful deliberation, I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering our next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. We will, of course, continue to develop products in partnership with Microsoft on the Windows Mobile platform, but from our internal platform development perspective, we will focus on only one."
Well, I think it is a good decision. They had to say what they did - the other alternative was "Well, it wasn't such a good idea. Turns out not too many people were interested in increasing the size of their PDA/Smartphone to the size of a small laptop, just without all of the functionality." So, I guess all of those abandoned HP Jornada 820 cases will remain unused for a few more months anyway.
"In the course of the past several months, it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform design and a single focus for our platform development efforts. To that end, and after careful deliberation, I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering our next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. We will, of course, continue to develop products in partnership with Microsoft on the Windows Mobile platform, but from our internal platform development perspective, we will focus on only one."
Well, I think it is a good decision. They had to say what they did - the other alternative was "Well, it wasn't such a good idea. Turns out not too many people were interested in increasing the size of their PDA/Smartphone to the size of a small laptop, just without all of the functionality." So, I guess all of those abandoned HP Jornada 820 cases will remain unused for a few more months anyway.
