Re:Why I never upgraded my Palm III
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Palm In Trouble?
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And here we find the fatal flaw to Palm's business model- one that most Internet & computer companies- endless growth & new customers. Just does not happen.
Had Palm's management been up with it they would have done what Visor does- create affortable upgrades and software that every user would want or could use. Also, they would have focused their sales on the one group that can afford $500 for gadgets- corporations.
The bottom line... they missed their chance. The big question becomes what will happen. Will the OS company keep going or will it go down.
The irony of it all would be if Visor ( run by the creators of Palm) bought the OS rights and took over.
Not only has 100Mbs ethernet been done but two appartment complexes in Blacksburg do have fiber to the apartments. While the idea seemed good at the time the cost for the resedents has proved to be too high (cost of hubs/ switches/ NICs) so we quit doing the fiber. They complained that their friends just needed a $20 NIC (that most had from being in the dorms) and that they had to purchase more expensive fiber cards. In the end we quit wiring with fiber and went to copper.
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And here we find the fatal flaw to Palm's business model- one that most Internet & computer companies- endless growth & new customers. Just does not happen. Had Palm's management been up with it they would have done what Visor does- create affortable upgrades and software that every user would want or could use. Also, they would have focused their sales on the one group that can afford $500 for gadgets- corporations. The bottom line... they missed their chance. The big question becomes what will happen. Will the OS company keep going or will it go down. The irony of it all would be if Visor ( run by the creators of Palm) bought the OS rights and took over.
Not only has 100Mbs ethernet been done but two appartment complexes in Blacksburg do have fiber to the apartments. While the idea seemed good at the time the cost for the resedents has proved to be too high (cost of hubs/ switches/ NICs) so we quit doing the fiber. They complained that their friends just needed a $20 NIC (that most had from being in the dorms) and that they had to purchase more expensive fiber cards. In the end we quit wiring with fiber and went to copper.