Palm Killed Foleo
I just got an announcement in my email Inbox from Palm. It was a letter from Ed Colligan, the Palm CEO. He said they were basically killing the Foleo Internet tablet/non-laptop/thingie because it had a different OS from the brand new OS they’re developing to replace the PalmOS. They said that developing two different, brand new OS’s was too much work and would distract them from Job #1 — developing the replacement for PalmOS to run their next generation smartphones.
Duh.
(They reprinted the letter at the official Palm Blog. Check it out.)
This announcement follows barely two weeks after this spot-on open letter from the gadget gurus at Engadget to the Palm leadership. Sounds like that letter did a whole lot of shaking things up at Palm…
FYI: Palm devices bore me. None of the Palm devices are on my Top 10 fave list. (Maybe I should make one…?) That being said, if I *had* to have a Windows Mobile device, their implementation of PocketPC would be my choice. Wait, scratch that. I love the industrial design of the T-Mobile Dash, which runs Windows Mobile Smartphone. If they doubled the speed of the Dash’s CPU, I’d pick the Dash over the Treo 750 any day.
