Along with the launch of the Treo Pro, the New York Times posted an article titled “Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle “. Unfortunately, the parts looking at Palm OS 2 have already been removed - luckily, Engadget has cached the relevant passages.
Cutting a long story short: Palm OS 2 will drop on a single device(!!!) and will come in the first half ot the next year(originally: early 2009).
Nevertheless, the article contains a load of interesting insight into Jon Rubinstein’s management methodology and the woes he had to face at Palm’s. An especially shicking example is below:
One thing he wanted to fix was the fit of the phone’s(the Centro’s, TP editor) plastic pieces. When he went around the room and asked who was in charge of that, no one spoke up. Mr. Rubinstein did not relent. “I asked until I found out,” Mr. Rubinstein recalled saying. “Then I said, ‘O.K., what do we have to do to get it done?’ ”
Get the full scoop here!
Why are we jumping to conclusions here? The article merely said “first half of next year”. True that is a wider time frame but that means a March 2009 release is still possible.
I think that, given the innumerable delays and false starts we’ve seen in any type of Garnet successor, further delay in POS II deployment is very plausible.
Hi Folks,
being perfectly honest, I tend to side with INION here. Actually, I think that its already too late for Palm in regards to Nova…developers are way too miffed due to the Cobalt and Foleo debacles…
All the best
Tam Hanna