Palm falls for reference: not just smartphones

In the face of bankruptcy, the company is not just a smartphone.　　This newspaper reporter Zhou Mobile Internet is always full of variables. Recently, the former smartphone leader Palm released its third-quarter financial results as of February 26, losing $18.5 million in the current quarter, the 11 consecutive quarterly loss for Palm, which has left its share price down 30% over the next period.　　Worse, Morgan Joseph &co analyst Iya Grossovsky and Canadian investment bank Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Missec cut Palm Target shares to $0 trillion. Palm CEO Joen Rubinstein said in an interview: "After seeing these views, I feel unreasonable."　　But he admits that the development of palm is slowing down, but there is still hope. Despite Rubinstein's insistence, Palm's fall has become an indisputable fact, even as the story has begun to be planned for Palm's future. As ever sun, the list of possible palm manufacturers was listed early, Google, Microsoft, RIM, Nokia, Motorola, Dell ...　　The companies that want to play in the mobile Internet arena are aiming at the maker of the global smartphone prologue, which inspired Apple to make the iphone, can it give new inspiration to other manufacturers? The former Hero Palm Company was established at the beginning, the goal is to successfully design a lightweight convenient and user-friendly pen portable computer. 1993, Palm launched the first product similar to the PDA product "Zoomer", the same year Apple launched the ipad's predecessor, "Newton", it is regrettable that these two products have not been successful, PDA did not enter the public life.　　To reverse the decline, Palm conducted a review of the new wash leather--from the Zoomer customers, began to analyze the PDA products for users really useful functions. Soon after, they found that 90% of Zoomer users had PCs, and it was important to send files and update applications from PCs. PDA product theme should not be to replace the user's desktop PC, but to replace the traditional "paper" Some simple functions, about the size, it should be able to put in the shirt pocket to be satisfied. In 1994, Palm launched the "Pilot" PDA product in 18 months, sold 1 million units, and, more valuable, the Palm OS Program development platform open architecture, attracted many for the Palm OS Platform development application software, the current sharing software (　　Shareware) and free software (freeware) has more than 10000 kinds of good application software is still in the expansion. The success of "Pilot" has sent a message to the outside world that future PC systems must be mobile computer systems, and open systems are more easily accepted.　　Mobile Internet research published by the US wireless market research company, Telephia, in June 2005, shows that email is the most commonly used wireless internet service for mobile internet users, and the Internet is currently used primarily for sending and receiving mail, weather and map information.　　But with the introduction of the iphone and the maturity of the 3G business, everything seems to have changed. The persistence of the original design was a disappointment to palm users, and even the Palm OS was categorized as "not enterprising". The business-focused smartphone ignores user-personalized apps, and Wi-Fi and GPS, which are almost never seen on Palm OS phones, make Palm OS smartphones increasingly small and disappointing.　　In February 2009, Palm announced that it would focus on the Web OS and Windows Mobile Smart devices in the future, but the strategy of ploughing the operating system did not pull palm out of the mire. Speculation about Palm's fate has become a hot spot again. All the rumors of the takeover have stimulated Palm's share price rise without exception. But Grozovsky and Moore, Morgan Joseph's analyst, said in the study that there was little benefit from the rumours that it might be possible to acquire palm companies, such as HP, Nokia, Microsoft or rim. Nokia and Rim both have their own platforms and are unlikely to buy palm any more, and Microsoft may lack interest because it could conflict with their smartphone clients. If Palm, as its CEO says, has about 590 million dollars in cash, it could be enough to develop another phone or improve the operating system.　　They kept the Palm investment assessment level "held".　　The new operating system and smartphones are a key part of the plan to revive the palm. The Palm Web OS is a new generation of operating systems that have unprecedented scalability through network clients. On the Man-machine interface, the Web OS is very friendly, enhances the touch experience, in addition strengthens the wireless interconnection function is also the new system important characteristic, supports the webpage content and the handset inside data Unified search function, can simultaneously handle many online tasks.　　In addition, the Palm Pre also has a new Synergy (collaborative) Sync System feature that automates the management of users ' multiple contact networks, and users only need to log on to Google, Outlook, and Facebook accounts, and Palm will separate the data from those networks. On smartphones, the Palm Pre is the first smartphone to adopt a Web OS, the Palm Pre's Web browser is based on WebKit, has a comfortable interface, and supports multiple tabs browsing. The Palm Pre also has a "pop-up" notification system similar to Google Android, which automatically resizes to allow you to see the message if you are running other software with new messages. ItsThe Dock toolbar can also customize the application shortcut Startup items and support Microsoft's Exchange Enterprise messaging features. However, the pre and subsequent Pixi did not save palm, and Rubinstein said the plight of palm was "disappointing" and "frustrating" and admitted that he was "annoyed" by the disappointing performance of the pre and Pixi. The reason for the pre and Pixi's poor performance, he argues, is that operators Verizon's shop staff are "poorly trained".　　and Palm's App Store, launched last September, did not recapture the market share catalog by Apple's iphone and Rim's BlackBerry. There is no doubt that operators in the terminal sales process has played an increasingly important role.　　On the one hand, the operators have the advantage of the channel which the terminal manufacturer cannot reach; On the other hand, the operator is the most important provider of mobile service, and has the abundant economic strength, huge customer resources and influence to the industry. Verizon Wireless, the largest mobile operator in the United States, will officially open its own smartphone app Store "VCast", according to foreign media reports. Industry sources said Verizon's wireless move was meant to "compete for profit" with the big-smart machine makers. For BlackBerry users who have signed a service contract with Verizon Wireless, for example, they will only be able to access Verizon's wireless vcast and not visit RIM's app World store.　　Like Apple app Stroe, outside developers sell one product per VCast, Verizon Wireless will receive 30% of the revenue, and the remaining 70% will be owned by the development team. The operator's "spoiler" may hasten the fall of palm. Asked if he would launch a new phone or make a major update to the Web OS, Rubinstein did not disclose any details, but promised that Palm would "continue to make significant investments in web OS development and new product development".　　If Palm is not acquired, the operator's "on-demand" or a good destination. For the end-makers who are interested in getting a slice of China's 3G market, Palm is just a microcosm, and the most important message is that hardware and apps have to be more tightly focused.