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Saturday, October 12, 2002Bow Lewis of InfoWorld writes that PDAs are here to stay, but Palm may not be:
Two years ago I predicted hard times for Palm. Hard times have arrived, in the form of plummeting market share and negative profits.
It was not a difficult prediction. When I wrote the column, Palm hadn't given customers any reason to buy a new PDA in years, and there are still only two reasons to replace a Palm PDA: (1) You dropped your old one; or (2) you want to upgrade to something better, which means either a Windows CE-based device or a Symbian-driven PDA/telephone combo.
He goes on to dismiss Palm OS 5 as "Yesterday's features tomorrow -- impressive."
I don't have it in me to do any more Palm-bashing right now. They've got problems, they need solutions. Convergence devices are a bright spot for Palm, just look at what Handspring, Kyocera, and Samsung have been doing. Maybe they should emulate Symbian -- exit the hardware business, push heavily for handset licensees. Let Sony and Handspring keep building PDAs, they're better at it anyway.
