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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
And thats the rub. They introduced it after a competitor was allowed to grab a huge amount of market and mind share...and not before.
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Palm (and later, HP) had four problems:
1) PalmOS was left to stagnate. It really didn't evolve all that much after, say, 2005, maybe even 2003. By the time the iPhone came on the scene, PalmOS wasn't even as capable as Windows Mobile.
2) By the time WebOS
did come out, Palm was running on fumes. WebOS was their last, best chance. Which brings us to...
3) They all but abandoned legacy apps after WebOS came out. They had a solution, Classic, for running legacy apps, but they chose to make that a paid app, rather than include it with the OS. Ideally, Classic should've just been a set of libraries that kicked in whenever you ran a legacy app. Failing that, they could've included the Classic app for free. I can't emphasize enough how suicidal the decision to make it a paid app was for them. PalmOS had an immense software library, and they just turned around and gave all those uses the finger.
4) The commercials for the Palm Pre were just godawful. Case in point:
Ads like that not only creeped people out, but they didn't showcase the actual
phone.
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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
These innovative companies need to learn to be first to market. Not second, third, fourth or fifth.
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Can you name a product class where Apple was the first to market?