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"Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS"
Reply to: by capnbob
Palm was already dead in 2007, it just didn’t know it. It had been in trouble for most of its life. The iPhone was the coup de grace but it would have happened anyway. Without the iPhone, there would have been no Luna or WebOS. The fact that it was able to put together a supergroup of devs and create something so cool, so fast shouldn’t be underestimated but the overall task was already beyond the capabilities of the business to make it successful. HP was a flicker of hope but without someone prepared to invest literally billions of dollars over many years, there was no chance. See what MS has already and is going to spend to make WP7/8 a weak, distant 4th place (3rd when RIM fails).
Ironically, had Nokia done what Palm did, when they did it, they would have had the financial and technical wherewithall to succeed, but unfortunately, they waited too long and are now doomed to an MS bailout or utter failure. Ditto RIM (though they have no hope of a bail out).
Reply to: by capnbob
Palm was already dead in 2007, it just didn’t know it. It had been in trouble for most of its life. The iPhone was the coup de grace but it would have happened anyway. Without the iPhone, there would have been no Luna or WebOS. The fact that it was able to put together a supergroup of devs and create something so cool, so fast shouldn’t be underestimated but the overall task was already beyond the capabilities of the business to make it successful. HP was a flicker of hope but without someone prepared to invest literally billions of dollars over many years, there was no chance. See what MS has already and is going to spend to make WP7/8 a weak, distant 4th place (3rd when RIM fails).
Ironically, had Nokia done what Palm did, when they did it, they would have had the financial and technical wherewithall to succeed, but unfortunately, they waited too long and are now doomed to an MS bailout or utter failure. Ditto RIM (though they have no hope of a bail out).