Palm needs what Apple has. Palm was always designed just like a Mac, and now they're going through their "beige box" years. They need a Jobs-alike to come along, dump the miserable Zire/Tungsten/LifeDrive/Treo soup and come out with an iPalm. Full stop.
They need to dump the half-baked PalmOS 5 and build a PalmOS "X" (VI?) with an entirely different architecture, and they need someone very bold, brave and charismatic to do it. They need someone with taste and vision to make a useful, beautiful, desireable piece of technology. (And that likely means NOT being an all-in-one windows-wannabe brick)
If you don't look at it exclusively from the "what Apple can gain" angle, you can see why this is a good idea, and why maybe only Apple can save Palm. They might get a little bit of value out of it, too.
by Jonathan — Dec 29
They need to dump the half-baked PalmOS 5 and build a PalmOS "X" (VI?) with an entirely different architecture, and they need someone very bold, brave and charismatic to do it. They need someone with taste and vision to make a useful, beautiful, desireable piece of technology. (And that likely means NOT being an all-in-one windows-wannabe brick)
If you don't look at it exclusively from the "what Apple can gain" angle, you can see why this is a good idea, and why maybe only Apple can save Palm. They might get a little bit of value out of it, too.