Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Palm Chief Rubinstein Talks About Mobile Space, HP Acquisition | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

More wishful thinking at HP Palm

“Palm created the PDA (personal digital assistant) space with the Pilot and the smartphone space after it with the Treo,” Rubinstein said this morning, reflecting on the company’s state when he first came to it. “So by birthright, Palm should have owned the smartphone market, but it just lost its way. It’s a very similar story to what happened with Apple.”

Except, of course, Apple never forfeited its independence to another company in the hopes of reclaiming its birthright, or to execute the broader vision of connected devices that arose from it.

Palm Chief Rubinstein Talks About Mobile Space, HP Acquisition | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

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