robbyy
02-10-2009, 01:59 PM
Dear Palm,
I have been a loyal supporter of your company for many many years. I bought a Palm Pro back in the day and have followed with models ranging through the TX with at least 5 stops in between.
I believe I have been lucky in a number of respects, several of the aforementioned devices still work. Some have been lost, stolen, or just sort of died a week or 2 out of warranty. But that being said, where is my new fricking PDA? I have waited patiently for you to wow me. I used your crappy TX models with their random lock ups and eventual death spirals. I used 2 of them in fact, because they were the best you had at the time. Now it is payback time, and I want a PDA.
I don’t want a smart phone. I have a smart phone, it is called a blackberry and I hate it, but if you guys can’t get your act together and work on a server solution that works with Exchange and possesses some degree of encryption, I guess the IT wonks at my office will continue to shun your products and order us Blackberry “waffle phones”, just like most fortune 500 companies.
So where is my PDA? I was patient. I was good. I defended your company at every turn with hope in my heart that you would do the right thing and create my perfect PDA (sort of like a TX that worked and didn’t cost more than a netbook). But you bailed on me and the rest of your supporters, and for that you suck.
You guys have forced me to take drastic steps and replace my trusty sidekick of 10 years with a iPod touch. You see the touch is not a great PDA. In fact it is a crappy PDA, but compared to your offerings of late (nothing) it is a better alternative. Granted I can’t synchronize with multiple PCs and I have to invoke the blessings of a dark elder god to get my txt formatted e-books on it, but at least I can BUY ONE! I will really miss not having access to the thousands of PALM apps I have collected over the years, but I guess your new smart phone users won’t be able to use them either!
I hope you have fun getting your teeth kicked in by the big boys and their smart phones. You better not come crying back to me when you lose your entire core of developers and users because you have screwed us over one time too many. I think I speak for all of us when I say we are gone daddy gone, and after I figure out why none of the fricking apps I want in the apple store are free I’ll drop you a post card.
Disgruntled in Memphis
I have been a loyal supporter of your company for many many years. I bought a Palm Pro back in the day and have followed with models ranging through the TX with at least 5 stops in between.
I believe I have been lucky in a number of respects, several of the aforementioned devices still work. Some have been lost, stolen, or just sort of died a week or 2 out of warranty. But that being said, where is my new fricking PDA? I have waited patiently for you to wow me. I used your crappy TX models with their random lock ups and eventual death spirals. I used 2 of them in fact, because they were the best you had at the time. Now it is payback time, and I want a PDA.
I don’t want a smart phone. I have a smart phone, it is called a blackberry and I hate it, but if you guys can’t get your act together and work on a server solution that works with Exchange and possesses some degree of encryption, I guess the IT wonks at my office will continue to shun your products and order us Blackberry “waffle phones”, just like most fortune 500 companies.
So where is my PDA? I was patient. I was good. I defended your company at every turn with hope in my heart that you would do the right thing and create my perfect PDA (sort of like a TX that worked and didn’t cost more than a netbook). But you bailed on me and the rest of your supporters, and for that you suck.
You guys have forced me to take drastic steps and replace my trusty sidekick of 10 years with a iPod touch. You see the touch is not a great PDA. In fact it is a crappy PDA, but compared to your offerings of late (nothing) it is a better alternative. Granted I can’t synchronize with multiple PCs and I have to invoke the blessings of a dark elder god to get my txt formatted e-books on it, but at least I can BUY ONE! I will really miss not having access to the thousands of PALM apps I have collected over the years, but I guess your new smart phone users won’t be able to use them either!
I hope you have fun getting your teeth kicked in by the big boys and their smart phones. You better not come crying back to me when you lose your entire core of developers and users because you have screwed us over one time too many. I think I speak for all of us when I say we are gone daddy gone, and after I figure out why none of the fricking apps I want in the apple store are free I’ll drop you a post card.
Disgruntled in Memphis