In 2007, shortly after Palm announced the Folēo, Peter Rojas of Engadget fame posted a “Dear Palm” letter that called for the Folēo cancelled [1]. A few days later, Ed had forwarded the letter to the executive [2]. A few weeks after that, the Folēo was cancelled [3].
He was probably working with the best information that he had, but going on the friendly advice of tech journalists may not have been the best move. Palm completely missed the boat on the netbook market.
Apple has milked Palm-firsts, like gesture-based UI (Prē) and mobile device mirroring to a computer (Folēo), since then to great success. Oh, what could have been…
He was probably working with the best information that he had, but going on the friendly advice of tech journalists may not have been the best move. Palm completely missed the boat on the netbook market.
Apple has milked Palm-firsts, like gesture-based UI (Prē) and mobile device mirroring to a computer (Folēo), since then to great success. Oh, what could have been…
[1]https://www.engadget.com/2007-08-21-dear-palm-its-time-for-a...
[2]https://web.archive.org/web/20071012033705/http://blog.palm....
[3]https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/09/palm-abruptly-cancel...