Palm Pre was always buyout bait.

Just a matter of time.

Funny thing is, MDN called this from day one. Say what you will about crazy MDN, but they're usually right. Part of it comes naturally from backing the winning horse, and the rest . . . might just be uncommon prescience after all.

Too little, too late! 'Another one bites the dust!'

Palm is dead. Long live Apple.

I had a Palm Pilot PDA in, I think, 1997 or so...man I thought it was the bee's knees! Sitting there with my stylus inputting contact names, phone numbers and addresses. Plus making 'to do' lists, ad nauseam under the false pretense that I was getting organized and therefore 'productive!'

Good times!

I cry crocodile tears

It's sad to see a once proud company on the verge of tripping into their grave. I did Palm development for many years back in the day. When they abandoned PalmOS and left it hanging for basically years, they lost me and a lot of other developers. Those monkeys running the company back then took the money and ran.

I knew people at Palm asking me and other developers to return developing for them when the Pre has just been announced. Because of the way their shop treated the people that made them successful, I told them their platform was doomed and I refused to do anything for them. Thankfully, I'm still friends with those people and of no surprise, a few months after they tried to sway me to develop for them, those same Palm folks quit the company as they saw the writing on the wall.

Such a shame. The worst part is that the executives that ruined Palm are working elsewhere and certainly in my belief, fabricating stories that makes it sound like they had nothing to do with its demise.

Good riddance Palm. You'll go down in history as how BAD management can ruin a great company.

indeed. too little, too late. they have nothing to leverage. no direction to grow beyond making ever cheaper phones. of course you need people to buy them if you want to keep making them.

If I remember correctly, along time ago there was a story I read where the CEO/Founder of Palm walked around for months with solid piece of wood in his jacket pocket which was about the size/weight of the Palm Pilot PDA that was under development.

Palm was fortunate to have him...thank goodness we have Stevo....

First...
Gateway
Circuit City
Nextel
Cingular
Alltel

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Next....
Palm
Sprint
Blockbuster (for sure)
Motorola (mobile cell phone division/offshoot)?

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot!

I told you so. Rubinstein is busy trying to be Steve Jobs that he forgot Palm is not Apple. Beside this is what you get for going head to head with everyone else instead of making partners. Furthermore, they should have spent more time improving their products instead of trying to crack iTunes. And who in their right mind release a phone the same month Apple release the iPhone?!