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Originally Posted by JAcheson
Considering the success of the EEEpc, it's pretty obvious what Palm was thinking. Though, I don't think the Foleo was quite ready for prime time.
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If Palm
had thought like ASUS, the Foleo might be out there and selling like hotcakes now.
But the eee is a stand-alone device, and the Foleo was an appendage to a Treo, only really useful if you had one. And if you did, you probably had a laptop, which the Foleo wouldn't replace. The eee, from published experiences of users, largely
can.
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Also, man, those phones are ugly. And bricklike. Perhaps that's why they never hit market: it was designed for a hardware platform that was DOA.
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Which phones? The Treos? Palm sells a
lot of them, and the Treo is the reason they still exist. Making them less ugly and brick like would likely involve a form factor that would make them unsuitable as a PDA, and since the point to a Treo is that it does both, I don't see that sort of change occurring.
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Dennis