{"id":9938,"date":"2010-02-25T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/with-lowered-sales-expectations-palm-runs-out-of-options-palm\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:17:12","slug":"with-lowered-sales-expectations-palm-runs-out-of-options-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/with-lowered-sales-expectations-palm-runs-out-of-options-palm.php","title":{"rendered":"With Lowered Sales Expectations, Palm Runs Out of Options [Palm]"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Palm issued a release announcing lowered guidance and sales expectations for this year, Jon Rubinstein<\/a> didn't even try to cushion it, admitting, \"driving broad consumer adoption of Palm products is taking longer than [he] anticipated.\" OK. Now what?<\/p>

The implication of \"longer than expected\" is that success will come if everyone just waits long enough<\/em>. But to say something like that in February of 2010, over seven months after the Pre launch, three after the Pixi launch, and weeks after a by all counts<\/a> anemic launch for their barely differentiated Verizon counterparts is to tacitly admit that there's a serious problem<\/em>. If Palm's current lineup doesn't have momentum now, it never will—and their investors know it.<\/a><\/p>

For Palm, this leaves two options: either build a new product—something they may not be able or positioned to do—and hope it's a wild success; or sell out. So who's buying? BusinessInsider<\/a> throws the regular suspects on the table—RIM, Nokia, Dell, HP—but they seem chosen because they'd be interesting<\/em> buyers, not because they've shown any real interest. Hey, wouldn't it be neat if Nokia or BlackBerry absorbed webOS, so they could both have truly modern, user-friendly smartphone operating systems? Yeah it would! Someone should tell them.<\/p>

This leaves Palm with nothing to do but wait: to die<\/a>; or to be saved by a hero it hasn't even glimpsed yet, and that probably doesn't exist. [BusinessInsider<\/a>]<\/p>

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