The market for computers is in constant flux. When you live between cracks it is even harder, if you're not a big player, to choose a direction.
The UMPC is the biggest threat to Palm.
I would have thought they would have jumped in and given us a different UMPC but they instead have chosen a completely different tack towards a 'castrated laptop'. Their offer is just that; it is not portable enough because of its size and weight and its functions are shortened by the necessitous addition of a Treo.
A UMPC Palm, thinner than existing devices would bring them back to their former status.
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