What in the world are they thinking!?!?
Palm introduced a new product today, called Palm Foleo. Palm founder Jeff Hawkins himself talked about it at todays D Conference in San Diego. However, it is remarkable how this product has made it this far through the product development cycle and eventually to market!
Basically, it is a dumb-down notebook for $500 that will connect to your mobile handset, be it a Windows Mobile, Palm etc. The idea is that is a "mobile companion", so you will need to carry two devices instead of one. Or even worse, since it's not close to the horsepower of a real notebook you will actually have to drag one of those along as well to get some real work done. Revolutionary, isn't?
It's actually sad to see Palm just dwindling into oblivion while competitors are rushing by. It is almost like seeing Altavista in the old days or even Amiga. Palm was once a great company with some very cool PDAs, now they have completely lost track. Stock is surprisingly up a little today, but there is no way in hell this thing is going to sell.
However, if this was 2003, maybe, just maybe they'd have a chance...
