I leave on vacation tomorrow, my first since December…. Apple releases the ridiculously hyped iPhone today. I have heard reports that it cures cancer… we launched our first BlackBerry product last week… Infinity Softworks’ web site or email system has been a headache for two straight weeks now… Palm and RIM announced quarterly earnings yesterday [...]
I spent years trying to steer Infinity Softworks out of mobile computing.
When the stock market crashed in 2001 and then the terrorist attack later that year, people stopped buying handhelds. We spent years trying to prop ourselves up in the market. We tried to go vertical, developing products for real estate and education, but our [...]
I opened the business section of the local newspaper this morning to find something quite interesting. It seems that Hewlett-Packard announced laptops with flash memory instead of hard drives. This announcement, along with Palm’s Foleo announcement, is very interesting. It is the opening salvo in the battle for the next generation of mobile computers.
I am [...]
I have talked to a number of customers and seen a number of blogs where people are asking what device they should buy next? [One example here.] I thought I would take the opportunity to talk about devices based on operating system and my opinion of each.
My first entry is on BlackBerry devices.
The Good
Simple design: [...]
On June 30, Palm announced the Foleo. In my mind it’s an ambitious endeavor.
For the third time, Palm is trying to re-invent a product category. First was the personal organizer (PDA), then was the smartphone and now the laptop. Palm wasn’t the first to design a product in each of these categoriesbut they arguably made each [...]
