Not really. Palm had an excellent product. There were a lot of startups that had ideas that are still innovative to this day in that space. They lost because t

Not really. Palm had an excellent product. There were a lot of startups that had ideas that are still innovative to this day in that space. They lost because there are very few entities with the capital and manpower that Apple or Google have. A modern successor to WebOS or FirefoxOS would be what I would want as a consumer nowadays. And yes, when more and more interactions with society depend on a smartphone, the basic rules of capitalism don't really satisfy.