Palm’s stock has been in for a wild ride in the past few weeks – this almost always puts the CEO under some kind of pressure to act. Jon Rubinstein always was extremely talkative – he now sat down with Fortune’s BrainstormTech journal to talk strategy.
Unfortunately, he hasn’t been able to refrain from Sprint bashing completely in the interview:
Was it a mistake to debut with Sprint in the first place?
Hindsight is always 20/20, but you have to understand that we had a long-term relationship with Sprint. Sprint wanted to do an aggressive launch on webOS. They were willing to invest significant marketing dollars. But the quid pro quo for that is that we had to do an exclusive with Sprint. Now, if I sit today and I kind of roll back the clock and go, okay, now if I could have launched in October with Verizon, and done a shorter exclusive with Sprint, and the world would be completely different today, yeah, I mean, that’s easy to say. But you don’t know these things at the time. And Sprint has been a really good partner for Palm. They continue to be a really good partner for Palm.
Either way: find out more at the URL below:
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/04/08/palm-ceo-puts-his-cards-on-the-table/
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