Palm Responds to the iPhone
Palm Inc., the maker of hand-held computers, has
hired a top Silicon Valley software designer as it seeks to respond to the
challenge posed by Apple’s new iPhone.
Palm Inc., the maker of hand-held computers, has hired a top Silicon Valley software designer as it seeks to respond to the challenge posed by Apple’s new iPhone. The designer, Paul Mercer, a former Apple computer engineer, began work three weeks ago at Palm on a line of new products…
Apple’s iPhone is still [at least three] months away from being available, but its flexible interface is already shaking up the cellphone industry, including Palm, which makes the hybrid phone-organizers known as smart phones.
Although Palm pioneered the market for hand-held computers, the company has found itself under pressure in recent years by some of the most powerful names in consumer electronics, including Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Microsoft.
The company’s own Palm OS software is widely seen within the industry as aging and in need of a fundamental revision.
Mercer has a good rep. Whether or not he can bail out Palm will be an adventure.
Posted: Mon - March 12, 2007 at 07:08 AM