Comments on: Palm cutting jobs, slashing a hole in our heart

By: Palm set for layoffs amidst declining enterprise sales at SmartPhoneCool.com

Palm set for layoffs amidst declining enterprise sales at SmartPhoneCool.com — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:00:14 +0000

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By: Juan

Juan — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:06:10 +0000

5% + 78% + 22% = 105% of all corporations for only three brands. Is there something wrong with these numbers or does it just mean that some corporations are buying more than one brand?

By: El Scorcho

El Scorcho — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:17:38 +0000

Good point Costock.

By: costock

costock — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:31:11 +0000

I guess that a company could plan to buy at the same time a RIM and an Iphone or Palm. So this explains that the total can be more than 100.

By: El Scorcho

El Scorcho — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:29:41 +0000

This article likely isn’t all that acurate as the percentages add up to over 100 percent without even factoring in android or wm devices.

By: Palm Nova DOA?

Palm Nova DOA? — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:37:55 +0000

[...] reading it as a cash positive when in fact it was an oh so cash negative. So now that they’re laying off people, G1’s selling like gangbusters and the Bold is selling for free – things look a little touchy [...]

By: Despidos II

Despidos II — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:09:21 +0000

[...] Más despidos en el mundo de la tecnología, Palm recortará personal de sus 1050 empleados en todo el mundo. No se sabe exactamente que número de personas serán despedidas, pero despidos, seguro que hay. (Vía) [...]

By: Yasser

Yasser — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:17:12 +0000

Yeah Palm make horrible smartphones. Am very surprised that they this many people on staff?

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By: MarcusT

MarcusT — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:19:20 +0000

I work for AT&T supporting PDA phones like Blackjack’s, Blackberries, HTC, and yes, Palm’s. If you call in with a Palm phone we make fun of you behind your back. Sorry, but those phone’s suck, and are nothing but problematic.

By: Tostada-man

Tostada-man — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:14:33 +0000

I used to have a desk at the building in McCarthy Ranch. I remember going to the second floor and staring at a display of a piece-by-piece exhibition of the Zire 72. Nasty little sucker….

Then I remember the feeling of holding in my hand my first Treo 600. With that crazy writing technology. I remember the look in the face of the Sprint lady who activate it for me. She was saying “Dude, you got a hellof a phone there”. Yes I did……

This was 4-5 years ago.

Two months ago I ended my Palm addiction with a BB Curve. I don’t feel the tip of my fingers now, my metacarpal bones are fused in a beer-grabbing position, the browser is so much faster, and the form factor is so much comfortable.

Now palm decided to sell the new treo….In Japan…

I’m not moving there…

Yes, there is still an employee pool there to fire 300-500 of them. You can see them having lunch in Tomatina ot in the Babana Leaf from time to time…

By: Eli

Eli — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:57:55 +0000

I have to jump on the bandwagon for this one. Palm needed to adapt to the market in order to survive against players like Google and Apple and clearly didn’t…

They make a solid product and still have some very talented engineers, but clearly in an industry like ours if you don’t modify your product after a few years, you might as well put your name in the history books. I give it another couple weeks before AOL is in the same predicament.

- Eli

http://www.thewebwar.com

By: CG

CG — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:22:59 +0000

Can anyone prove that palm isn’t really zombie technology? Chuck nails it.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:41:05 +0000

I loved my Palm’s, but moved on to other things when it became apparent 5-6 years ago that Palm was incapable of any further innovation. Surprised it lasted this long.

By: SlickDealer

SlickDealer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:40:30 +0000

Palm should quit dicking around and add all options of OS on every phone across every carry they sell through. Furthermore, they should jump on the Android band wagon and offer that as an option too.

By: Jamie McQuay

Jamie McQuay — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:51:09 +0000

I’m surprised that Palm still has that many people on staff…