The news coming out of Palm have been nothing short of depressive over the last months – a recent conference call raised a few interesting points:
Per-unit sales
Palm managed to sell 1,029,000 smartphones at an average price of 284USD/box. Furthermore, 166000 handhelds were sold, which represents a drop of 49% on a year-over-year basis.
Centro
Palm employees have stated that the Centro momentum will peak soon. Message: no more easy money for Palm…
Nova delayed even more
The delays faced by Nova have now become so big that Palm starts to play number games – Ed Colligan stated that the OS was well on track for completion in 2008 – but handhelds running it won’t be available until H1 2009…
In the end, it looks like Palm OS II (aka Nova) will truly become a no va: the product’s delays have now reached dimensions where motivating even a single developer to spend man hours on software for it will become a herculean task (Fooleo and Cobalt, anyone). Game over – folks, I guess that it’s truly time to become acquainted with TamsPPC, TamsS60, TamsWMS or TamsIJungle in the next months…
What do you think?
P.S. I will start a developer health survey soon…
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How about TamsAndroid?
This gets my pick as most TamsPalm’s pessimistic post ever. Honestly, if you exaggerated the situation any more you would have me believing TamsPalm is going offline tomorrow, down for the count.
But I guess exaggeration is reporters jobs, eh?
I’m a long time Palm OS fan – have a Treo 680 now and really like it.
Palm just seems to go along on it’s own path disregarding how their software partners may see things. Software is what makes ANY of these devices worth buying.
Ruslan, yes, I also thought about that