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Originally Posted by Woukie
They were about to turn the corner. With a surge of activity they could have turned the tide and achieved success. They should not have withdrawn the device without first achieving success. By cutting and running and withdrawing the device, they only encourage the competition.
The CEO shouldn't have listened to the shareholders or the public. He should have only listened to officers with a vested interested in success who he had personally appointed to their position.
Any suggestion to withdraw the product should have exposed as a lack of loyalty for the company.
Its a sad day for America.
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Wow! I think it was wise of them to heed the rumblings of their public. Who buys the stuff?
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Originally Posted by Studio717
I never could understand the "smartphone companion" angle - I just wanted one for writing. Since I switched from a Treo to an iPhone, I didn't need all the stuff they were touting, but I so wanted that instant-on, no hard drive, wifi-for-backup writing machine that it looked like it could be.
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Now you can buy the Asus EEE 701. It is nearly the same thing at half the price. And you don't have to fool with a mail-in rebate!
I seriously hope Palm succeeds. I have owned their devices for years, and will continue as long as they keep making them. Competing in the inexpensive laptop market is tough for a small company. Here in China you can buy a laptop for under US$400 and US$500 is common. We have to pay a lot of Value Added Tax which keeps our prices higher than in the west for technology products. So you can see that low-priced laptops are the wave of the future. Palm's offering didn't hit the sweet spot, and they realized it. Watch what happens in the next year or so. Asus is the first, but won't be the last.