Palm goes retail in California

Alexander Turcic · 11-07-2005, 05:11 PM

For the next few days, we expect hundreds of thousands of gadget-crazed technophiles to descent upon California for visiting one of the five newly opened Palm retail stores.

Palm Retail Stores also are reaching new users who are buying Palm's high-end devices, demonstrating the rewarding experience customers have when they interact with knowledgeable staff and have a hands-on experience with Palm(R) products. Forty-three percent of Palm Retail Store customers are new to handheld computing -- 56 percent of those new users are buying Palm Treo(TM) smartphones, and 44 percent are buying Palm handhelds and Palm LifeDrive(TM) mobile managers.

PalmAddicts has all the juicy details.

Pride Of Lions · 11-07-2005, 09:26 PM

Good old Palm, always 3 years too late. The kiosks should have been upgraded way earlier back when Palm was on top and then they could have (potentially) maintained/increased some of their mindshare and marketshare. Now they look desperate.

I can understand the stores in the San Jose mall and at the Palm HQ. I don't know the L.A. location, but it makes sense to have a presence in Southern California. Kinda puzzling is the 2 stores at SFO. Apparently, Palm feels that they'll be several business travellers who will have a need for a Treo while they're on the road (as if their company hadn't already bought them one) and Palm'll catch up on that lucrative business-traveller-impulse-buy. In the 2 different terminals, no less.

I get the feeling that Palm is playing catch up and I'm not too sure that it's too little too late.

doctorow · 11-08-2005, 10:57 AM

It's probably just a matter of how much Palm needs to invest to open one store. If the store is profitable, I don't see why they shouldn't try to extent their market reach.

11-07-2005, 05:11 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Palm goes retail in California For the next few days, we expect hundreds of thousands of gadget-crazed technophiles to descent upon California for visiting one of the five newly opened Palm retail stores. Palm Retail Stores also are reaching new users who are buying Palm's high-end devices, demonstrating the rewarding experience customers have when they interact with knowledgeable staff and have a hands-on experience with Palm(R) products. Forty-three percent of Palm Retail Store customers are new to handheld computing -- 56 percent of those new users are buying Palm Treo(TM) smartphones, and 44 percent are buying Palm handhelds and Palm LifeDrive(TM) mobile managers. PalmAddicts has all the juicy details.

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11-07-2005, 09:26 PM	#2
Pride Of Lions just kinda geeky Posts: 381 Karma: 30 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Oakland, California Device: iPhone	Good old Palm, always 3 years too late. The kiosks should have been upgraded way earlier back when Palm was on top and then they could have (potentially) maintained/increased some of their mindshare and marketshare. Now they look desperate. I can understand the stores in the San Jose mall and at the Palm HQ. I don't know the L.A. location, but it makes sense to have a presence in Southern California. Kinda puzzling is the 2 stores at SFO. Apparently, Palm feels that they'll be several business travellers who will have a need for a Treo while they're on the road (as if their company hadn't already bought them one) and Palm'll catch up on that lucrative business-traveller-impulse-buy. In the 2 different terminals, no less. I get the feeling that Palm is playing catch up and I'm not too sure that it's too little too late.

11-08-2005, 10:57 AM	#3
doctorow Guru Posts: 914 Karma: 3410461 Join Date: May 2004 Device: Kindle Touch	It's probably just a matter of how much Palm needs to invest to open one store. If the store is profitable, I don't see why they shouldn't try to extent their market reach.

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