Comments on: The Palm Pre’s biggest liability appears to be Palm itself. http://www.darquecathedral.org/archives/1008 For a dark man shall come unto the House of God... Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: D'Arque Bishop http://www.darquecathedral.org/archives/1008/comment-page-1#comment-15079 D'Arque Bishop Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:10:33 +0000 http://www.darquecathedral.org/?p=1008#comment-15079 Palm devices used to be the big dogs of PDAs. PalmOS was quick, simple, and worked VERY well as a dedicated PDA OS. I've had three Palm PDAs: a Palm IIIe, a Handspring Visor, and a HandSpring Visor Pro. (Handspring was founded by Palm's founders, and Palm bought them sometime in 2005 or thereabouts.) However, as time went on, Palm stagnated and never released needed updates to PalmOS. They were eventually overtaken by Windows Mobile, Blackberry, and Symbian. Then again, while I had hoped Palm would turn things around, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Back in 2007 or so, we had a couple of users who absolutely INSISTED they be issued Palm Treos at work. Those things were the biggest pieces of junk I'd ever seen. The number of times we had to replace their devices due to warranty exchanges was unreal. After about a year or so of that, those two staunch Palm users very happily migrated to Blackberries. Palm used to be a great company. How the mighty have fallen... Palm devices used to be the big dogs of PDAs. PalmOS was quick, simple, and worked VERY well as a dedicated PDA OS. I’ve had three Palm PDAs: a Palm IIIe, a Handspring Visor, and a HandSpring Visor Pro. (Handspring was founded by Palm’s founders, and Palm bought them sometime in 2005 or thereabouts.) However, as time went on, Palm stagnated and never released needed updates to PalmOS. They were eventually overtaken by Windows Mobile, Blackberry, and Symbian.

Then again, while I had hoped Palm would turn things around, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Back in 2007 or so, we had a couple of users who absolutely INSISTED they be issued Palm Treos at work. Those things were the biggest pieces of junk I’d ever seen. The number of times we had to replace their devices due to warranty exchanges was unreal. After about a year or so of that, those two staunch Palm users very happily migrated to Blackberries.

Palm used to be a great company. How the mighty have fallen…

]]> By: Shoe http://www.darquecathedral.org/archives/1008/comment-page-1#comment-15078 Shoe Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:57:49 +0000 http://www.darquecathedral.org/?p=1008#comment-15078 I wasn't aware of the problems. Not that I'd go to sprint (though their ads have been interesting lately) but, I guess I never got into the whole palm thing. -Shoe I wasn’t aware of the problems. Not that I’d go to sprint (though their ads have been interesting lately) but, I guess I never got into the whole palm thing.

-Shoe

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