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PalmOS was already dead when the iPhone was launched. In fact most players had divested the market at this stage. The PocketPC team was a skeleton and Symbian

PalmOS was already dead when the iPhone was launched. In fact most players had divested the market at this stage. The PocketPC team was a skeleton and Symbian was being eaten from inside by competing internal projects. Apple had a highway.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
>PalmOS was already dead when the iPhone was launched. It was declining but not dead. Palm's swan song, Palm Centro, released in 2007, was a big success. They sold at least 2 million units[1]. According to AdMob, in terms of web traffic, at some point it was the second most popular smartphone in the US (7th worldwide)[2]. [1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20080805094357/http://blog.palm.com/palm/2008/07/over-2-million.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080805094357/http://blog.palm.... [2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20080913073944/http://www.admob.com/marketing/pdf/mobile_metrics_aug_08.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20080913073944/http://www.admob....
- hedgehog 4y ago
  Exactly, good brand and decent market position making the situation potentially salvageable with better strategy. Look at Apple around ten years earlier, classic MacOS and the beige boxes and a business bleeding cash. Palm has the Pre on the way, that was a really nice device but delivered too late and without a good enough app strategy.