Comments on: Palm CEO Circa 2006: Apple Win in the Smartphone Sector? Never Gonna Happen

By: You Can Almost Feel the Panic at Palm, Can’t You? | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:10:53 +0000

[...] in the shadow of an even more formidable rival. Just breathe into the paper bag and count to ten, Ed … Print [...]

By: Can Palm Beat iPhone?? « Jungle News

Can Palm Beat iPhone?? « Jungle News — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:44:56 +0000

[...] learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk [...]

By: Palm Investor: Palm Pre Way Cooler Than The iPhone | ProducerLink

Palm Investor: Palm Pre Way Cooler Than The iPhone | ProducerLink — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:41:34 +0000

[...] learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk [...]

By: Finance Geek » Palm Investor: Palm Pre Way Cooler Than The iPhone

Finance Geek » Palm Investor: Palm Pre Way Cooler Than The iPhone — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:44:19 +0000

[...] learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk [...]

By: Palm New-ness: A Target Price of Zero | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:03:14 +0000

[...] In 2006, Palm CEO Ed Colligan utters the words he’d be choking down two years [...]

By: AMD Adjusts Q4 Revenues From ‘Roughly Flat’ to ‘Roughly Crappy’ | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:22:11 +0000

[...] week has brought with it bad news from Palm, Research In Motion, Adobe, AT&T, and Nokia. Now AMD (AMD) has joined them as well. In a terse [...]

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:53:49 +0000

That’s the trouble with the future. It’s hard to predict. Especially in advance.

By: Bill Baker

Bill Baker — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:21:59 +0000

I bought (and still have) the very first Palm Pilot. Earlier this year, with great trepidation, I gave up my Treo with Palm OS for a BlackBerry Curve.

I haven’t looked back. Not only do I not miss the Palm OS and using a stylus, I wondered why I stuck by Palm for so long.

Fare thee well, Palm. You did good, then you got passed.

By: Michael Shults

Michael Shults — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:18:39 +0000

As a LONG-time Palm user, it seems to me that Palm neither innovated boldly, in the manner that Apple did (and does), nor did they devote themselves to and fiercely hold on to their customer base, the way BlackBerry has.

My experience with Palm has been that they are, at best, utterly oblivious to their customers, and their product offerings have been relegated to, at best, me-too status.

They had a lead in both product and market position, and simply squandered both.

By: Frank Field

Frank Field — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:58:24 +0000

I’m an apple lover, but I don’t “love hearing” that Palm is failing. They had a good OS, but, in my opinion, got lost when Windows Mobile seemed to take off. I remember really enjoying my Palm M125 and being excited by the Tungsten. But then phones and PDAs converged and, where the heck was Palm? I find it sad for the people being fired. I’ll give you one thing, Quincy, it’s the result of poor leadership. CEO’s never fire themselves to save a company a ton of money, though, do they?

By: Quincy Davis

Quincy Davis — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:55:23 +0000

I love hearing about the fools that predict the future when it comes to Apple. Palm is a failing company and thay have Mr. Colligan to thank. He has no vision if he did he would not have said what he did back then.