It’s pretty sad to read about Palm, a company that was so early in the PDA marketplace that…well, did they actually invent PDAs in 1996? Now Palm is struggling—really struggling—to come up with a product whose features attract buyers. Heaven knows they’ve tried very hard. You’ll recall the Pilot and all of its progeny. At the time they were the electronic device to have. But tech moves pretty fast, and the rise of cellular phones pretty much ended the interest in the Pilot. And as we all now, the iPhone pretty much ended interest in bad cell phones. Most recently Palm came up with the Pre, which in ordinary times would be a very nice smartphone. It’s design and marketing was aided by Jon Rubenstein, who jumped to CEO at Palm from being iPod Sr. V-P at Apple. But since the Pre’s debut at CES in Jan. 2009, it hasn’t caught on. This week Palm announced its financial results will be down for the latest quarter because of “slower than expected consumer adoption of the company’s products.” The stock has plummeted as future confidence has evaporated. And even more sad, the price of the Pre and Pixi have dropped dramatically since the financial announcement—you can get a Pixi for free at Best Buy and the Pre for just $69.99. For a company who was so far ahead in the late 90’s, it’s sad to see it so far behind just 14 years later.
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I ought to say that my choice to obtain a Palm Pixi with Sprint provider was both a rational and emotional one particular. I suggest, the Palm Pixi is wonderful and functional. And coupled with all the provider good quality of Sprint, it looks practically nothing short of a revolution inside the producing. I believe that Palm and Sprint have (virtually) hit it off famously. I did a good deal of research prior to obtaining the Pixi but overlooked at least a single factor. The Pixi won’t, yet, allow me synchronize my e-mails concerning it and Outlook. As far as I’m concerned, this really is a drawback I’m facing unless Palm comes up with a option speedily. With my prior SmartPhone running a Windows OS, it was a snap to synchronize e-mails along with other info with one’s Computer. But Pixi’s inability to do so is producing life a small tough for me because I’ve to Bcc each and every e-mail, I send out, to my e-mail address and then manually transfer it towards ’sent’ folder in Outlook. I hope Palm, or at lowest a third-party, will come up having a alternative extremely quickly which will effortlessly permit me synchronize all my e-mails, and ideally all necessary data, between the Pixi and my office Computer.