Re: Palm struggling to survive
 

Some of us put what little we can into retirement accounts, and it doesn't make us rich. Not even close. In fact here in the US, most of us lost our retirement thanks to the actions of the frivolous rich.

There's a connection in there to Palm's misfortunes, too.

Re: Palm struggling to survive
 

-27%,96, or what bloody day at stockmarket looks like.
http://media.share.ovi.com/m1/s/1868...f5f0d7742f.jpg

leetut in america many of the things we europeans expect society to provide are privatized. Even relatively low income people have investments like 401k plans.

Re: Palm struggling to survive
 

It would be easier on the eyes but wouldn't it defeat the purpose of the "snapshot" effect? i mean. as it stands now, i can type one lil icon when ever i want and imediately see every single app that is running on my phone and easily switch between them as i please.

Would it be time consuming to have to scroll through multiple pages of cards to get to the application that you are looking for?

Re: Palm struggling to survive
 

Palm has one good thing going for them. the design of the pre. it has an asthetic quality unparalled save the iphone with its simplistic yet stylish design. there arent many phones out there worth looking at. palm pre and pixi are two of them, aside from those two... sheesh palm still makes cell phones?

Re: Palm struggling to survive
 

It was BeOS, which had amazing possibilities for there next device. Sadly it never bared any fruit quick enough.

Even though I wasn't gonna get one anytime soon, I was still rooting for them. Hopefully some of the employees make a startup and use meego and there base os with palm like UI..;)

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Re: Palm struggling to survive
 

I don't know about implementing Cards as the sole task manager, but I wouldn't mind if you can toggle between maemo's task manager and Cards. Perhaps simply implemented as a toggle button in one of the free corner when task manager is called.

Re: Palm struggling to survive
 

iirc, palm was never clear about the mail program being sync with phone only, or able to operate on its own.

also, they never actually released. Instead they caved under the pressure of a questioning press (especially engadget was leaning on them). Yet the same press went crazy over the asus eeepc when it was released, when it was basically the same product, except it used a x86 cpu rather then a arm cpu.

Re: Palm struggling to survive
 

at the time, palm was two companies, mainly to avoid issues with antitrust as they where licensing the os to third parties while also selling devices using said os.

problem was that the os company came up with cobalt, but as garnet had the market time it had, noone wanted to jump to cobalt as it had no way to run the existing software library.

Re: Palm struggling to survive
 

Reading this new Palm CEO interview made even more sure that Palm is a dead man walking.

Might be because the interview is for american media, but he seems to see all troubles related to network provider support. Trying to import the american carrier focused model outside USA has been one of Palm's biggest mistakes, and it seems that the guy in charge still don't get it. It has barely worked for Apple, and I think Nokia woud in much bigger trouble if Steve could think outside the american box. Palm simply doesn't have the brand strenght to pull that trick off, not even as far as Apple has managed. It's not even close. Somebody tell him that USA is only 20% of total smartphone market. Palm RIP.

On the positive side for Palm stockholders; rumours about HTC/ASUS/random taiwanese corporation buying Palm have caused 20%+ boost to stock price.

Re: Palm struggling to survive
 

Palm pre just had a pretty UI from what I played with and sub 3.5" screen. It wasn't really denting the blackberry or iphone fortes. None of the rumoured successors have come out and they are even smaller. Just my two cents.