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I miss the Palm days. They did so much right, it was really sad watching it all go wrong. I did a lot of software work for the ill-fated Foleo. It was such a ni

• pavlov 11y ago
  That's really interesting. I remember the Foleo and how puzzling some of the design choices seemed from the outside (such as requiring a tethered Palm device). Can you tell some more about the development process? When was it originally supposed to ship? Did the product vision change a lot along the way?
  • zelos 11y ago
    It was pretty odd. I was on the outside (we were developing the office software) but it was clear Palm were struggling. I don't know the original plans, but it was our longest running project - 2 years maybe? The platform kept changing and we'd get builds with obvious bugs - they once didn't notice they'd completely removed modal dialogs until we pointed it out. I suspect they'd lost a lot of their experienced developers by then. Towards the end there were delays because someone high up decided the screen resolution was too low and was then overruled I believe. My best guess would be that it was meant to be out a year earlier? Of course, I went from that to WebOS. Maybe I'm software's equivalent of Jonah?