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Palm Slashing Staff… And The Slow Bleed Continues

Caught this at ITNerd:

It actually made me sad when the news that Palm is laying off up to ten per cent of its staff and cutting some product offerings hit Valleywag. Palm used to have a rather nice handheld OS and I have owned several Palm products over the years. But increased competition and increased focus in terms of churning out Windows Mobile OS devices has put Palm OS into the position of being a distant also ran. To be fair, there are rumblings of a new OS coming. But it may be too little, too late for Palm.

Given that the smartphone market is basically made up of Apple, RIM, Google OS, and Windows Mobile, I doubt there’s room for another company in this market. Palm’s days may be numbered.

As a one time fan of Palm, it’s a shame to see them go this way, but they’ve missed the boat on so many occasions it’s not surprising. Besides the constant splitting/merging/splitting again of it’s various divisions, one of Palm’s biggest mistakes, in my humble opinion, was to not listen to what a lot of fans were clamouring for as far back as 2004.

A 320×480 Palm device with the Treo phone innards shoved into it.

At the time, Palm had re-merged with Handspring, bringing the cellular technology on board. They already had plenty of experience making (then) high res 320×480 screens, and it seemed only a matter of the next product announcement cycle would bring this device out, but it never happened.

To this day, Palm still hasn’t introduced a high res phone, and I can’t for the life of me imagine why not. They have all the ingredients, and all the know how, but continually go off target.

Maybe they’re busy working on the Foleo 2. I wouldn’t doubt it.

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