You get a funny feeling down in your stomach when Palm launches the new Treo and the press says that Palm was dealt a huge blow, conceding the handheld platform war to Windows Mobile. You know something went wrong in spite of the successful launch when you get comments like:
“It’s about growth and about taking this whole category to the next level,” he said. “We think that this operating system offers some functionality that the Palm operating system doesn’t necessarily have. Certainly it does some things better.”
and
Palm has been stuck with this ancient operating system,” said Todd Kort, principle analyst with Gartner. “They had no choice but to modernize.”
There is truth to this though — Cobalt could never be completed, so instead they used Windows Mobile, which offers “more or less” the same functionality. Time to let go of the biases boys and girls. If you love your Palm, stick with it, but hell has just frozen over.
[...] This leaves me with one question: Are personal data management devices that intelligent to know exactly what you want to access? As a tech junkie, I’m used to fiddling around with the ins and outs of the software. Several years ago, Palm took the path of simplicity over complexity. Look where they are now. [...]
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