3
Oct
Posted on 2008 under Android - G1 |
While browsing for mobile news and reviews this morning I came across a Fortune article that I thought had some very valid points and was an interesting read. The Why Palm Needs Android article makes the case for three reasons why Palm should consider the Android OS on future devices rather than rolling out its own Linux operating system sometime in the future. I think Palm should at least consider the idea, especially since their revenues keep going down.
Continue Reading: by Matthew Miller
3
Oct
Posted on 2008 under Android - G1 |
Fortune makes the suggestion that Palm should focus on Google’s Android mobile operating platform, and then ZDNet follows with a question, “Should Palm drop their Linux plans and embrace Android?”
The answer is “Yes.” An emphatic “Yes.”
Fortune writes:
…[I]t may be time for a drastic change of strategy. If Android is all it’s cracked up to be, Palm may be better off scrapping its OS plans, and throwing in with Google instead….
Certainly, Palm would be taking a risk by betting on Android. Any embrace of Google would bring the wrath of Microsoft, which could make it more difficult for Palm to produce its most profitable handsets, its Windows Mobile-based Treos.
It really doesn’t matter if Android is “all it’s cracked up to be.” It also doesn’t matter if Microsoft doesn’t like it. Palm isn’t exactly thriving with Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform (nor is Microsoft, for that matter). Palm is a walking corpse and needs to associate with living, breathing human beings again.
Android lets Palm bet big on the future. Windows Mobile is a bet on an operating system that has failed to make much of a dent on the market in its 10 years of struggling to do so. Palm was right to bet on Linux two years ago, but it has done little with the strategy. It’s time to try its luck with Google. Android is no panacea, but it’s better than popping Advil while its arms, legs, and neck get amputated by the market.
Unless you’re Google, these look like rough times to launch a mobile operating system.
That puts Palm in an awkward position. Things have not been going well for the beleaguered smartphone maker, whose founders arguably kickstarted the smartphone revolution 12 years ago. Eighty percent of its sales come from the troubled U.S. market, its Treo phone has given up market share to the BlackBerry and it has lost buzz to the iPhone. Read more… »