VentureBeat - Latest Comments in Conversation with McNamee: Three fit the bill — RIM, Palm and Apple

Re: Conversation with McNamee: Three fit the bill — RIM, Palm and Apple

Shore — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:50:34 -0000

The Foolio will have appeal with some for its size and instant-on, but not enough IMO to turn Palm around. They were the leaders of innovation just a couple of years ago (okay maybe Handspring was) so maybe some new board members can help it back to the old focus. Probably needs a big shakeup to leadership tho. Like everyone with a blue shirt in this picture http://www.palm.com/us/comp...

Re: Conversation with McNamee: Three fit the bill — RIM, Palm and Apple

feedback — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:57:07 -0000

Sorry, but clearly Elevation does not understand mobile markets.

In any case, to recover $325M, now the first thing Elevation needs to do is fire Palm's corporate biz dev & marketing executives, bunch of Faileos.

Re: Conversation with McNamee: Three fit the bill — RIM, Palm and Apple

A. Smith — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:23:38 -0000

RIM has been eating away at Palm's market share for years as they both target the corporate market. RIM has recently made a successful inroad into the consumer space with the Pearl. Apple, despite the hype, has yet to make a splash in the smart phone market. If (maybe when) Apple does make a splash, the road to overcome RIM, as well as other Symbian based smart phones will challenging given integration with the PC which still accounts for more than 90% of the worlds computer usage. The same can be said of smart phones with Windows Mobile.

Yes, it is true that Apple is a marketing power, but let's not overlook the fact that Apple NEVER reached market supremacy for personal productivity. It is presumptious to believe that Apple will do so now given the hype around the iPhone. :-/

Re: Conversation with McNamee: Three fit the bill — RIM, Palm and Apple

Carlo Longino — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:59:18 -0000

If McNamee and the other Elevation folks see only RIM and Apple as Palm's competition in the smartphone space, they're not going to help it much.