RE: Palm speak

2009-02-20 Thread r r
So does this mean that superwaba is dead too? or soon to be? Dean-O --- On Mon, 2/16/09, Lee Church lchu...@mobitechsystems.com wrote: From: Lee Church lchu...@mobitechsystems.com Subject: RE: Palm speak To: Palm Developer Forum palm-dev-forum@news.palmos.com Date: Monday, February 16

re: Palm speak

2009-02-16 Thread Luc Le Blanc
Palm CEO Ed Colligan said Wednesday morning at the Thomas Wiesel Technology and Telecom Conference in San Francisco: The Palm OS is officially dead, having been on life support for nearly five years. Actually, wasn't it Palm itself that was on life support, keeping itself busing selling,

RE: Palm speak

2009-02-16 Thread Philip Sheard
Palm CEO Ed Colligan said Wednesday morning at the Thomas Wiesel Technology and Telecom Conference in San Francisco: The Palm OS is officially dead, having been on life support for nearly five years. Actually, wasn't it Palm itself that was on life support, keeping itself busing

Re: Palm speak

2009-02-16 Thread Kent Loobey
My feeling is that the PDA was just too much work for most people. That is why it was never widely accepted, the way that mobile phones are. I think the people that need a PDA as a tool are still there. Groups that are flocking to the new smartphones are looking for something different.

RE: Palm speak

2009-02-16 Thread Lee Church
. Lee Church www.mobitechsystems.com -Original Message- From: Luc Le Blanc [mailto:llebl...@cam.org] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:47 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: re: Palm speak Palm CEO Ed Colligan said Wednesday morning at the Thomas Wiesel Technology and Telecom

RE: Palm speak

2009-02-16 Thread Luc Le Blanc
Lee Church wrote: And how many PDAs were sold to compute sea tides, display a sky map, or survey a cave? And how many consumers are accessing Facebook? It's a game of numbers, and the realistic question is do you want to be selling thousands of units for specialized applications or do you

Re: Palm speak

2009-02-16 Thread Edward Jones
. Lee Church www.mobitechsystems.com -Original Message- From: Luc Le Blanc [mailto:llebl...@cam.org] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:47 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: re: Palm speak Palm CEO Ed Colligan said Wednesday morning at the Thomas Wiesel Technology and Telecom