Colligan's Foleo Cancellation Memo

[BaDZeD]

Last night as we all know Palm posted a letter of termination of foleo on its blog :( One thing I found interesting in the message was the opening paragraph:
"As many of you are aware, we are in the process of building our next generation software platform. We are very excited about how this is coming together. It has a modern, flexible UI, instant performance, and an incredibly simple and elegant development environment. We are working hard on this platform and on the first smartphones that will take advantage of it.

In the course of the past several months, it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform design and a single focus for our platform development efforts."

Ed is talking of a new UI for the pOS II, I remember previous discussions (in various forums) were leaning towards Palm OS II being simply the same old GUI pulled over the linux kernel. This is the first official evidence of the contrary.

Am I the only one who found this interesting?

[Shrink]

I find it interesting but not terribly surprising. I have a difficult time trusting anything Palm says or does. I can't remember a patch that they have released in recent history that they haven't "pulled" soon thereafter for example. Their reluctance or inability to really update the TX is another example. I could go on and on.
<sigh>
alan

[ShakeTheMaster]

Palm has no game plan. They threw a Hail Mary Pass back in May when the Foleo was introduced, hoping Palm diehards would catch it and run with it. Well, they realized at the last minute that the catch was not going to be a touchdown. They should of realize between May-August no one wanted to catch it to begin with. (ie. Fans are booing. Engadget's rant)

I still have a little hope left in Palm. Please don't fumble the ball this time. We had plenty already with the updates to the Treos.

Football season is starting had to throw it out there. :)

[BrentDC]

Oh, thanks for the Football reminder, I forgot to make my picks :eek: *scrambles to find NFL Schedule*