Thursday, August 18, 2011

A Palm Eulogy

Palm, which revolutionized the PDA market, was basically laid to rest today. HP bought Palm not long ago and today announced that it was shuttering WebOS, the OS that was the primary spoils of the Palm takeover.

I had a Palm PDA and also a Treo. Frankly, I never really cared for either product. The Palm script never made sense to me. That said, I think Palm did a lot for the adoption of PDA technologies and the convergence of PDAs with cell phones, thus creating the now-ubiquitous smartphone. So...to this, I say, fare thee well, Palm and Palm/WebOS.

What about you? Did you ever have a Palm product?

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