Valleywag
Former Apple exec Jon Rubinstein, who ushered in the iMac and iBook, was recruited by Palm in mid-July to help pull the company out from under Apple's Birkenstocks and RIM's wingtips. The flailing smartphone maker certainly needs someone to inject something into its product lineup that is, as CEO Ed Colligan concedes, perceived as stale. (Treo, Treo, Treo!) Too bad it didn't happen sooner. Yesterday it was confirmed Palm will have a wave of layoffs, rumored to be in the hundreds, in the next few weeks. Why?
Because an unspecified product didn't meet with a carrier's approval. Palm blames the misstep for a $30 million hit to this quarter's projected revenues). Rubinstein's influence may take years to find its way into actual phones. No consolation for those without jobs in the short term.
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Poor Palm... the first mover advantage... the first mover disadvantage... the 3COM sale... the brutal programming environment... the software spinoff... the software repurchase... Garnet... Cobalt... Linux... the founders going to Handspring... having to buy Handspring to get some mobile phone products... the screamingly painful bugs in the 2001 Samsung I-300 still there in the 2006 Treo 650...
If it wasn't for bad news, you know what I mean. Every time you scored it was for the wrong team.
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