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Bloomberg Reports That Palm Is Up For Sale

Posted by timothy on from the handwriting-on-the-wall-is-graffiti dept.

leetrout writes with this excerpt from a story at Bloomberg News "Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, put itself up for sale and is seeking bids for the company as early as this week, according to three people familiar with the situation."

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  1. Re:only a matter of time by v1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Lots of great memories Palm, though none recently

    Just another case of a manufacturer that failed to keep innovating. Blackberries and iPod touches took them out of the handheld data market, and there are currently way too many equal and better smartphones out there today. Palm became irrelevant about 2 years ago. The only angle they could possibly have used at this point was customer service, and unfortunately for Palm, they actually started at the bottom of that pile and stayed there. On that note I'd say "good riddance". Complete lack of product support made me a one-unit-customer.

    I certainly won't miss them. They neither offered a good product nor pushed the industry in the right direction.

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  2. Re:No surprise. by itsme1234 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's a shame the app store isn't on par with Apple's.

    BINGO! They're great smartphones except that ... they're aren't smart because they don't run the apps you want! The hardware itself isn't _that_ bad (although Palm as usual is 1-3 years behind and had some poor choices like 8GB internal flash and no card slot) but the fact that you can't do much with it really hurts and as expected will kill the platform. As I was saying the day Palm Pre was announced (and especially after knowing it won't be GSM for a long while): good riddance, Palm.

  3. Re:It's dead for a reason. by mdwh2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    OS X was new, not too long ago, too. Good thing for you that people didn't have the same attitude there. (It's funny how Apple fans love to say how they're being different, but look down upon anything that's different to them - just look at the vile that gets spouted every once in a blue moon there's an Amiga story.)

    If the worst happens, they could just stick the BeOS name on a new OS, which is what happened to Mac, anyway.

  4. Re:BeOS! by glwtta · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    even OS X fails this test

    Wait, "even" OS X? OS X has some of the worst multitasking of any modern OS. It has an honest to god busy cursor that indicates that the entire system is locked up, no less. Seriously, the entire system goes away because of a user action. In 2010.

    I know, I know: (-100, Not an Apple Fanboy)

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