Despite the new CEO’s credentials, I do not think Palm has any serious chance to recover financially at all. Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle [NYTimes.com]. And that’s coming from an early adopter who used the Palm OS, and still has scores of Palm applications, for 13 years. They have just fallen too far, too fast and lost touch with the marketplace. Sayonara Palm; RIP.
Update: So in retrospect it’s easy to see why Palm agreed to the NYT profile yesterday. It was one day in advance of their launch of a new Treo phone, which garnered lots of boos from technical reviewers. Palm Treo Pro: Not digging It [Matter/Anti-Matter]. I don’t think the PR strategy will work, either, BTW.