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Palm Reveals New Name
dmehus writes "Milpitas, Calif. based Palm Inc. announced Sunday afternoon the new name and moniker for its handheld hardware business. After almost two years in the planning and focus group stages, the company's Board of Directors and executives decided on PalmOne. PalmOne's ticker symbol will change from the current PALM to PLMO. Sister company PalmSource, which will be the operating system business, takes ticker symbol PSRC. According this report by CNET News.com's Ina Fried, the two companies will be publicly traded, but they will also be controlled by a new holding company. In addition, the Spring 2004 line of handhelds will adopt the PalmOne moniker. Devices that run the Palm OS can continue to say "Palm powered." The new ticker symbols and corporate name changes will take affect some time in late September or early October, once the Palm buyout of rival HandSpring is complete."
They didn't even make it fully buzzword compliant. There's no '.' in there or 'e' anywhere... What about 'flex' or 'i'?
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Geez, two years to decide to change your name from Palm to PalmOne. I am soooo in the wrong business.
Or is the name "PalmOne" almost an invitation to steal the thing?
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they probably actually paid a marketing company a million bucks to come up with that lame-ass name!
Hell, I would have thought one up for 50 bucks. here's a freebie:
"Shaznasta"
T.
PHB types throwing away the natural sexy name "Palm" and instead using "PalmOne"...
GOD and it took them two freakin years ?????
Insert mandatory Dilbert joke below my sig.
there IS an "e" at the end of "one". You know, they have an e-backend in their nu.Name.
Free as in mason.
I had a palm, and when I got rid of it I tried to get off all the palm mailing lists. I still got spam after spam no matter how many times I logged in to change my profile "if I no longer wanted the e-mails."
:)
I guess that too many people have blocked *.palm.com so they need something new to spam from.
No...I'm not bitter
...it worked so well for Real. I mean, realOne is just such brilliant, usefull software. Hopefully they don't add the bloat, that what makes them nicer the windows mobile devices (for business purposes). Because I swear to god if my palm starts beeping and buzzing, and I pull the thing out of my pocket so it can tell me "whats cool for August" I'll smash the thing to little pieces.
pa1mOne?! Are you kidding me?
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After the famous musician who was formerly known as Prince, and who was retagged "his formerliness" by a well-known music magazine...
The Company Formerly Known as Palm has also decided upon an unpronouncable glyph as their name. But it makes much sense, since in any case they will soon become a division of Sony and their name will be recast in Hirigana.
ParmOS, I saruta you!
Ceci n'est pas une signature
PHB::According to Johnson's report I see we have market share and brand name recognition. What's our plan?
JOHNSON::Do nothing sir.
PHB::Do nothing? You idiot Johnson YOU'RE FIRED! Cravenstone what do you have?
CRAVENSTONE::Let's change our name sir.
PHB::Excel-lent....
This
After merging with Handspring, they could have called their devices 'Palmsprings'.
because it's better less lame than using the word .NET
Well, there's goes my bet on what the new Handspring, Palm merged company would be called:
"PalmSprings" of course!
Sure, you laugh now, but their new office digs woulda been SWEET.
Two years to come up with that!?
What's the difference? Do they think people are going to buy more of their crappy, outdated and unimaginative products because they stuck a "One" at the end of their moniker? I doubt their daydreams are going to come true:
Husband: "Edna, look here at this here Palm pee-da thingy. I should get one of those."
Wife: "I don't know Clarence, it looks like those Sony and Microsoft ones over there have more features."
Husband: "Maybe you're right. I don't want a second-rate product."
Salesman: "Actually, they just changed their name to PalmOne."
Husband: "Well shit! That settles it. Give me twenty!"
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Everyone's reading PalmOne like it was pronounced Palm-WON, but it's really pronounced Pahl-MOH-nay, which clearly is designed to appeal to the modern, hip Euro-style elite. Ooh, la la.
PalmOne's ticker symbol will change from the current PALM to PLMO.
Dibbs on the PALM stock symbol so I can unload millions of shares of my fly-by-night IPO on the uneducated masses!
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They're predicting how many employees they'll have left in three years :-)
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PalmOne and PalmSource?
Why not just HyperGlobalMegaMart?
Did they take out a super bowl ad too?
Pardon me while I go PalmOne.
I have the same problem. Gypsies always give me strange looks when I take a tropical plant into the caravan to have my fortune told, and I've been waiting for my hand to produce coconuts for 34 years now.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
OUR BRAND PROMIES IS SO WAL UNDERS2D BY DA MARK3TPLAEC TAHT DA CONCEPT OF ONE IN OUR NU NME WAS IMEDIAETLY COMPELNG11!!11!! WTF LOL ONE IS A POW3RFUL ADITION 2 TEH INSTANT BRAND R3COGNITION AND IEDNTITY OF DA PALM TEH1!!!1 WTF RED/ORANGE COMBINATION IS A BOLD D3PARTURE FROM TEH BLU3 TAHT PALM HAS USAD FOR MANY YEARS AND BUILDS ON OUR NU SUBRANDS AN3RGY ANTHUSIASM POWER AND INOVATION COM3 ACROS MUCH STRONGAR IN OUR NU COMBINATION
OUR!1!1!1!! NU NME ALSO SIGNALS A NU BGINNG AT PALM1!!1!!!! OMG WTF BUILDNG ON OUR MOMENTUM IN TEH HANDH3LD COMPUTNG SPAEC WORLDWIED AND COMPLEMANTNG IT WIT TEH AXPACTAD INT3GRATION OF DA AWARD-WINNG TR3O LIEN OF SMARTPHONES FROM HANDSPRNG WIL GIEV PALMONE TEH BROAEDST PORTFOLIO OF HANDHELD COMPUTARS AND SMARTPHON3 PRODUCTS LAD BY DA MOST AXPAREINC3D TEM IN DA INDUSTRY 11!!1 WTF LOL
(I didn't write this - I got it from a Palm message board. Still funny, though.)
Of course the real reason for the change of name to PalmSource is that they've discovered 80 lines or so of C code in PalmOS that matches code in the heart of the Linux kernel, no, the edges, no, the utilities, and they've decided to take a leaf out of SCO's book and sue IBM, no, Linus, no, everyone who even mentions Linux to try to prop up a dwindling market share.
Quick everyone, buy Palm shares cos they're about to shoot through the roof!
Evidently coming in close second was the name HairyPalm. Yuk Yuk Yuk
...I have decieded to rename myself GeoffreyOne.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Darn, I thought maybe they'd go with RedPalm.
Or, because of the buyback/out/up of Handspring, call it PalmSprings. That'd be cool.
Ed R.Zahurak
You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
enhancing shareholder value by paying consultants to piss on you.
"But actually trying to use m4 as a general-purpose langage would be deeply perverse" --ESR
You would definitely be struck down by National Beverage Corp. on that one since "Shaznasta" is clearly just a feshizzle nizzling of their Shasta brand name.
Glad to see that the marketing group who came up with "New Coke" finally got another client.
When you click on the link the parent poster provides, the first thing you see is this:
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Clearly they are doing their best to avoid being Slashdotted, while not shutting out the Slashdotters completely. As intelligent and reasonable as this is, it still strikes me as amusing.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
It's the same focus group over and over and over and over... again.
I'd appreciate it if you could drop me an e-mail if you're willing fill-in for me some time. The pay is pretty good but it's getting tedious, I could use some time away from the responsibility....
They're taking example from Sun who is so good at branding that it virtually guarantees people understand what you're talking about.
Except instead of naming an umbrella of 100 unrelated products under the One brand, they're renaming the entire company!
Sheer genius. Let's see if Geoffrey Moore can write a book on this phenomenon.
Good thing they didn't skimp and only take one year to come up with it; it might have sucked.
(w/ apologies to Scott Adams)
You can use the phrase "they're trying to PalmOne off on us" now.
Did you say B1?
BINGO!!!!
been waiting for that for about 5 balls now
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