1. I've been using a Treo for about a year now and I am heavily dissapointed by it compared to e.g. the Palm (Handspring) groundbreaking device Visor Prism I had owned and used for nearly half a decade...
Prism was the first ever color PDA I remember. Looks like Palm today is scared of innovation and those who are still there among innovators like the Handspring founders seem gagged and bound by some marketing or legal folks nowadays.
This is a pity for a once rather innovative company. Palm had also realized what the Apple Newton failed in those days. Now it seems Palm is just going to try fight the iPhone in a loosing battle. And compared to the Treo I use and know (which always failed to work and crashed after sending 1 or 2 SMS at least in an O2 network all the time) even some of iPhone's known limitations are still worth considering it.
I am not a professional business analyst, but I have susscesfully predicted Borland would move JBuilder to Eclipse back in 2000. Among a few other things. If Palm after some "adventure" like a Windows-based Treo now decided they bet on Linux, the only chance I see for them to survive is joining the Open Handset Alliance lead by Google.
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January 17th
1. I've been using a Treo for about a year now and I am heavily dissapointed by it compared to e.g. the Palm (Handspring) groundbreaking device Visor Prism I had owned and used for nearly half a decade...
Prism was the first ever color PDA I remember. Looks like Palm today is scared of innovation and those who are still there among innovators like the Handspring founders seem gagged and bound by some marketing or legal folks nowadays.
This is a pity for a once rather innovative company. Palm had also realized what the Apple Newton failed in those days. Now it seems Palm is just going to try fight the iPhone in a loosing battle. And compared to the Treo I use and know (which always failed to work and crashed after sending 1 or 2 SMS at least in an O2 network all the time) even some of iPhone's known limitations are still worth considering it.
I am not a professional business analyst, but I have susscesfully predicted Borland would move JBuilder to Eclipse back in 2000. Among a few other things. If Palm after some "adventure" like a Windows-based Treo now decided they bet on Linux, the only chance I see for them to survive is joining the Open Handset Alliance lead by Google.
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