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 sellin

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 > b

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. The

RE: Palm speak

2009-02-16 Thread Lee Church
of full-time, hard-core, diehards. 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

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 d

Re: Palm speak

2009-02-16 Thread Edward Jones
a handful of full-time, hard-core, diehards. 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 mornin

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 wrote: > From: Lee Church > Subject: RE: Palm speak > To: "Palm Developer Forum" > Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 2:42 PM > Hmmm.. > And how many PDAs we