Posted on 23 August 2008, at 6:35 am, by Wayne Schulz

Engadget’s outgoing Editor Ryan Block (today’s his last day) follows up on last year’s intervention letter to Palm. He scores Palm’s progress toward improving the company in light of the one year they’ve had to implement changes. What comes across is that Ryan believes the (long delayed and now hardly ever talked about) next-gen Linux based OS is a critical unique selling point and should have been seen by now. I’m skeptical Palm can make a decent rate of return pushing Centros below cost and Treo’s that run on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system. Engadget’s followup is a nice summary which also mentions the biggest Palm eye-opener of the last week — the Treo Pro launched in the USA with NO CARRRIER support. PS When was the last time Jeff Hawkins was seen in public?
Engadget Cares: The state of Palm – checking in a year later
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August 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 am
Gear Diary should post an intervention letter to Engadget. Their quality has plummeted since Peter Rojas left the helm.
August 24th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Has Jeff Hawkins played ANY role (publicly) since his embarrassing unveiling of the Foleo at the All Things Digital show?
August 24th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I read somewhere that in Palm’s last SEC filing he was listed as “former officer” and that he has been spending all his time on his new company Numenta.