Palm's Woes Are All About Image -

Palm's Woes Are All About Image - PCWorld.  Is Palm dead in the water? They lost many original Palm users when they took the innovative Web OS phones, and tied them to Sprint. As this author points out, however, Palm's decline has many other fathers; not the least of which is the iPhone and the new Android competition. Palm spent way too long with an antiquated OS, and not enough compelling new reasons to buy the new one. The Sprint marketing has been skewed to a female audience, and has turned off many male geeks, who are generally first adopters of new tech. Look at the success of the male oriented Droid marketing for proof of this. So, would a new ad agency solve Palm's image problems? Probably not, but it couldn't hurt.

Comments

[Miriam Robeson]

I was forced to abandon Palm for many of the reasons you stated - not available with my cell provider or with features I wanted/needed. I don't like Outlook, but was compelled to adopt it as the "least evil" option available with the technology I wanted. Now, the water is under the bridge, and (very likely) I won't go back to Palm, even if it does become available in the format and on the hardware I use. Still, I miss my old Palm device.