Palm is dead years ago after they failed (3 times!) to deliver WiFi in time. A lot of people bought Palm m500 and subsequent devices in hope to use SD slot for WiFi connectivity.

No luck, they ignored us... people turned around... time passed and other devices started looking more good than Palm OS which was designed for very low resource device.

Now, they doesn't have anything to compete. Around 2 years ago they bought Linux company (I forget that it was - Zaurus or else) but they doesn't deliver Linux up today. So they doesn't have a fan-customer base too like Apple because nobody has interest in some unknown OS with unclear perspective.


I am speaking on my own - I own a lot of Palm devices (and still have 2 functioning) and I spent thousands $$ on them. But I looked for replacement LONG time, right after Palm V because I need WiFi.

I waited and waited them to do a nice communicator with Linux inside... no. They tried to get share of cell-phone market but without bright features they played only in 2nd level on that market - Nokia,Moto and other big phone makers doesn't want new players, of course.

And I was surprised then I saw Nokia Linux-based communicator (N7XX-N8XX) on market but Palm still doesn't have it. Instead of it they turned to WinMo... and that was a slide down.


Company managers are definitely not... brilliant.