Palm CEO’s Letter to Employees

Re:Palm CEO’s Letter to Employees by pedalpete on Friday February 26, 2010 @01:53AM (#1152613)

I'd love to understand your logic of apple being 'the only ones that could manage it at the scale they're shooting for'.

What about Blackberry (outsells iPhones I believe), Nokia, etc. This is not a mature market and there is still boatloads of innovation to happen. What advantage does apple have over anybody else, with the exception that they brought out a device which set a great standard to measure competitors against.

If webOS had been a year earlier, would those positions be reversed? If so, would you be saying Apple should give it up?

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Re:Palm CEO’s Letter to Employees by rimantas on Friday February 26, 2010 @06:57AM (#1152960)

  What advantage does apple have over anybody else,
  with the exception that they brought out a device
  which set a great standard to measure competitors
  against.

Don't you think that coming out with device like this is the advantage Apple has? Or rather capability to design such device.

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Re:Palm CEO’s Letter to Employees by pedalpete on Saturday February 27, 2010 @01:36PM (#1155609)

No, I don't agree with that. Remember the Motorola Razr? That was 'the device' to have, and Moto was almost completely out of the market within a few years. I don't expect Apple to rest on their laurels, but they have competitors gunning for them, and this won't be a market where everybody has only one device. This may not even be as homogeneous as the pc market. Just my 2cents.

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