Palm's Mistakes

putko writes "Mike Singer has an article at ZDNet called Five reasons for Palm's slide which describes succinctly how Palm went from owning the palmtop platform -- OS and apps -- to getting chopped into pieces (some recently sold to a Japanese firm), using an OS from Microsoft and teaming up with Microsoft. The author claims, among other things, that Palm's stuff never worked well enough with Windows (while the RIM Blackberry did), which ultimately allowed Windows Mobile to eliminate them. A hard fall for a company that really did innovate."

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And they can take their "Sync" software with them

[theurge14]

If there ever were a textbook titled "10 examples of Bad, Unintuitive, Buggy, Horribly Designed UI, Takes Hours Of Fiddling, Praying and Teeth Nashing To Work Software", Palm Desktop would be numbers 1 through 5.