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Colin Dunstan · 12-10-2005, 10:32 AM

New York Times scored an extended interview (reg req.) with Palm CEO Ed Colligan. The highlights:

Ed doesn't believe BlackBerry service will be discontinued
Though he believes RIM-NTP battle could benefit his company to grab more market share
Palm's competitive advantage over RIM is the wide range of available applications
Ed confuses "open platforms" with "well-supported industry standard platforms"
He avoids to directly answer whether his company has looked into open-source
He implies that the current status quo of mobile open-source suffers from bad user experience
Apple iPod is a competitor in the sense that people often weigh their purchases of handhelds against MP3 players
Music applications won't necessarily converge with phone and organizers
Phone-capable handhelds is a bigger growth area than dedicated organizers
"When you see our next-gen product, it has a high-speed radio in it, literally bringing kind of broadband connection speeds to the device. It totally changes the dynamic of how accessible the Internet is as an information access point wherever you are and whenever you want to get access to it."

12-10-2005, 10:32 AM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	New York Times interviews Palm CEO New York Times scored an extended interview (reg req.) with Palm CEO Ed Colligan. The highlights: Ed doesn't believe BlackBerry service will be discontinued Though he believes RIM-NTP battle could benefit his company to grab more market share Palm's competitive advantage over RIM is the wide range of available applications Ed confuses "open platforms" with "well-supported industry standard platforms" He avoids to directly answer whether his company has looked into open-source He implies that the current status quo of mobile open-source suffers from bad user experience Apple iPod is a competitor in the sense that people often weigh their purchases of handhelds against MP3 players Music applications won't necessarily converge with phone and organizers Phone-capable handhelds is a bigger growth area than dedicated organizers "When you see our next-gen product, it has a high-speed radio in it, literally bringing kind of broadband connection speeds to the device. It totally changes the dynamic of how accessible the Internet is as an information access point wherever you are and whenever you want to get access to it."