Comments on: Is RIM about to buy Palm? http://www.rimarkable.com/is-rim-about-to-buy-palm The Unofficial BlackBerry Weblog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Is Palm Ready To Sell? | RIMarkable | The official, unofficial BlackBerry Weblog http://www.rimarkable.com/is-rim-about-to-buy-palm/comment-page-1#comment-49968 Is Palm Ready To Sell? | RIMarkable | The official, unofficial BlackBerry Weblog Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:30:42 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=752#comment-49968 [...] Palm being sold have been floating around for some time now and at one point, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion was thought to be one of the bidders, although that no longer appears to be the case. There are up to four buyers on the hook in all [...] [...] Palm being sold have been floating around for some time now and at one point, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion was thought to be one of the bidders, although that no longer appears to be the case. There are up to four buyers on the hook in all [...]

]]> By: thought http://www.rimarkable.com/is-rim-about-to-buy-palm/comment-page-1#comment-3464 thought Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:29:57 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=752#comment-3464 This would be a fascinating move if it happens. Both RIM and Palm are great at delivering a fantastic end user experience. This would certainly open the door for RIM to release a BB device with camera/multimedia, etc. I for one would like to see these two team up and avoid getting crowded out or seriously marginalized in their market by Microsoft. Windows Mobile has its strengths, but right now it lags behind both the BB OS and the Palm OS in usability. Yet Windows Mobile keeps making gains due to the huge leverage of Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft reminds me of WalMart...they have huge advantages of scale that enables them to in many ways overpower the competition, but the end user experience still sucks in comparison to the competition. Microsoft wins out in the end not so much due to having superior products, but superior market muscle. Both RIM and Palm offer more elegant mobile solutions; I would like to see them both thrive in their market. This would be a fascinating move if it happens.

Both RIM and Palm are great at delivering a fantastic end user experience. This would certainly open the door for RIM to release a BB device with camera/multimedia, etc.

I for one would like to see these two team up and avoid getting crowded out or seriously marginalized in their market by Microsoft. Windows Mobile has its strengths, but right now it lags behind both the BB OS and the Palm OS in usability. Yet Windows Mobile keeps making gains due to the huge leverage of Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft reminds me of WalMart…they have huge advantages of scale that enables them to in many ways overpower the competition, but the end user experience still sucks in comparison to the competition. Microsoft wins out in the end not so much due to having superior products, but superior market muscle.

Both RIM and Palm offer more elegant mobile solutions; I would like to see them both thrive in their market.

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