Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long!

[michaelb]

RAMd®d wrote:
I mourn more for the death of Palm.

Agreed.

My first Palm was a V, then a Tungsten T3.

I wanted a Vx but missed that boat. What a great little device. What great devices for their time.

I hate to see anybody go under, especially in this economy. While Apple will probably be the manufacturer that makes the tech gear I want, competition is good, and not everybody needs what Apple builds.

It's amazing that the iPhone and iPad (and to a lesser degree, the 'Pod) have defined the Standard for so many, and that it's as though nobody wants a "tablet" but everybody (yeah, I know) wants an iPad.

Still, Palm was there when the Newton wasn't.

I started with a Palm Pro, and that must have been before 1999. Those palms, with the "app store" called palmgear was on par with my ipad today, and my uses are remarkedly similar. If only Palm had been smart enough to develop a larger screen tablet with a web browser/interface with a dataplan option that actually worked (my Tx choked regularly on the internet and was never a reliable browser).

[vision63]

My actual last pure Palm experience wasn't so long ago. My Palm Centro phone was replaced by my Palm Pre (Sprint phones).

I accidentily sat on my first Palm Pilot and crushed the screen. I felt sick. I bought 2 Palm IIIxe's (one for a gift at $250 ea). They worked great.

I think Palm was smart enough to develop more advanced devices, they just never seemed to have enough cash for R&D, so they just took bets on devices that ran the same OS's.

[NewtonMP2100]

....so no more.....Midas.....TOUCH......???

[testcase]

vision63 wrote:
I mourn more for the death of Palm.

It is sad. I remember how awesome it was to buy my first Palm Pilot. Almost as cool as when I bought my Fat Mac (which I swapped out days later for the new Mac Plus). Buying the little apps and playing the stupid little games. Reading ebooks on it. Feeling so technologically fit.

:agree:

I wish Apple had bought Palm a few years back when it sold for less than $10 million. The Search feature alone would have been worth it.

[digby]

Ahhh... still have my palm Vx.
In the back of my closet.

What a cool form factor.