Don’t ask me why, but it looks like ganging up with Access Co. isn’t too good an idea. The company’s self-esteem has apparently shot through the roof after the PalmSource takeover; resulting in, well, excessive amounts of staff attitude. The boys have found themselves pressured by Operas superior technology for some time; and were furthermore unable to reap significant revenue from their super-expensive purchase.
Emblaze’s ELSE was thus considered a “silver bullet” for the company by many onlookers. If the box would sell well, it would make the platform viable – but it apparently never made it onto the road last but not least due to lack of public interest. An official press release from Emblaze finally announces that the device is indeed EOL’d:
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ELSE’ management have since invested considerable time and effort to secure a
partnership for the sale of the First ELSE mobile devices. While there was
encouraging interest in the device by potential partners, management was not
able to confirm a deal on terms acceptable to Emblaze to proceed to the
production of the device.Due to critical delays in deliveries and the current status of the project, the
board has now decided to cease any further investment towards manufacturing of
the First ELSE mobile device and to concentrate efforts only on licensing the
ELSE Intuition platform and technology in order to realize its potential
upside.…
For me, this sounds a lot like the Palm/PalmSource split – let’s see whether they or Access will be the first to go down….
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