“Apple’s iPhone already looks like a smashing success from a financial standpoint,” Scott Moritz reports for TheStreet.com. “In the past week, with the device’s launch still three months off, a few analysts have already raised their sales estimates.”
Moritz reports, “Even industry skeptics think Apple’s deft design hand, and consumers’ growing allegiance to the iPod brand, will push the company past its target of 10 million iPhones sold over 18 months.”
“‘First, don’t call it a phone,’ says Ovum analyst Roger Entner. ‘The carriers have destroyed the value of the phone. To most people, a phone means it’s free. It’s like calling your car a Yugo.'” Moritz reports.
“One outfit that sits squarely in Apple’s path is Palm. The Treo, an expensive handheld computer phone, had many loyal fans before sleeker smartphones, such as Motorola’s Q and Samsung’s BlackJack, started chipping away at the Palm phone. Now, with the imminent arrival of the iPhone, Palm seems doomed, say analysts. ‘Palm is shaking in their sandals,’ says Ovum’s Entner.”
Full article here.
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Palm CEO laughs off Apple ‘iPhone’ threat – November 20, 2006
“What goes up, must come down
Drivin’ Palm, into the ground . . . “
“What goes up, must come down
Drivin’ Palm, into the ground . . . “
“What goes up, must come down
Drivin’ Palm, into the ground . . . “
I love the smell of Palm in the morning . . .
Where are all the posters who used to say on this site (repeatedly!) that Apple was foolish not to buy Palm?
It’s easier to only remember the things you were correct about, I guess.
I don’t recall any sane observer saying that Apple should buy Palm. Apple’s defunct Newton is still better than most Palm offerings. The only reason Apple would buy Palm is out of pure pity for it’s employees and shareholders. It would gain no noticable assets to further it’s own goals in championing an industry that has long been lax in innovation.
Palm will be the first blood on the touch screen.
This is the same bullshit they preached when the Motorola Q launched. Infact Palm and RIM’s stock dropped by a large percentage on the day Verizon released it only to bounce back once the anal ysts realized that it was no threat to their business base.
It’s the yearly holiday season iPod-killer speculative crap that you’re all quick to shoot down. Now that the shoe’s on the other foot, however, it must be true.
R2 shooting his dumb a$* mouth off again, PALM is DONE, TOAST, OVER, you heard it here first OVER!
“…Observers say the iPhone offers a direct challenge to RIM’s hot new consumer device, the Pearl. But the BlackBerry business niche may not feel much pressure from Apple. The iPhone’s OS X operating system and lack of basic office software makes it almost a pure consumer device.”
Are these people total idiots? Why can’t anyone see that the iPhone is a highly capable, sub-tablet computer. The fact that it runs on MacOS X means that it has the potential to run functional circles around any “smart phone.”
Just because all of these functions haven’t been discussed by Apple doesn’t mean that they are not possible. If there is push email, then there will be apps to handle all common email attachments.
I thought that was Nay Palm…. gonna have to watch Apocalypse Now
Right, my dumb ass mouth. Comparing what we’ve contributed to the conversation thus far, you’re clearly the superior thinker.
As long as Palm makes Windows Mobile devices they have a safety net which Apple can’t touch. The only threat the iPhone poses at the moment is to any attempts by Palm to reach the higher end consumer.
Palm quality currently is a disaster.
Sprint has replaced my Palm Treo 700 p 5 times. Today, less than two weeks later, I have to return it as one of the buttons stopped working, you have to calibrate the screen several times a day, and, the phone jack stopped working.
Yes, Apple is saving cell phone users from this crap that cell companies…palm subject end users too.
David
I hate my Treo 650. When it first came out, I had to have it? Why? I had the Treo 600 and surely this would be far better. There has only been one firmware update and the P.O.S. has never been updated again. It reboots when deleting text messages fast; Never connects to the phone network on the first try.
I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.
I’ll gladly buy the iPhone just to tell Palm to go suck their P.O.S. 680, 700, 750, 800-series phone that are all basically the same.
Palm is already down. Palm´s market value is 1.75 billion. It has been flat for few years and they have nothing that would take them up.
The torture of these Palm Treo antiSmart Phones is compelling me to perhaps switch to Cingular and pay the early termination fee. The Palm 700p is just awful. Slow, crashes, reboots, and virtually no support. That is, no one has an answer as to how to fix this.
The Sprint store just hands out another defective phone with no care or concern. Geeeee. I would gladly take a blackberry or another phone. But no, just hand me another broke phone for another and another and another.
David
Why is everyone so happy to see Palm fail?
Sure, the iPhone trumps the Treo. But, remember, Palm has been supporting Mac and creating Mac friendly products since their beginning…
But, it seems that they have turned their backs on their consumers! Call them. They don’t care when you ask for support. Help. Advice. A clue.
They need to build trust with their consumers rather than act like there is no problem.
They don’t care!
“Why is everyone so happy to see Palm fail?”
At the bottom of every MDN article, there is a list of older related articles.
For this one, take a look at the very last link.
Palm is now on the Mac fanboy hitlist.
Why is everyone so sure that the iPhone will not have any quality issues? Apple does not manufacture the parts and Apple has been known to sell computers that have some pretty shoddy parts. Anyone recall the Powerbook 5300 fiasco? Again, how can you know that the iPhone won’t have a flakey, shortlived touch screen, bad battery life, software issues that occasionally lose all your aquired and stored data? How do you know that it won’t be the laughing stock of the cell phone industry once it actually gets into someones hands other than Steve Jobs up on stage? None of the posters on this forum have ever used one or even seen one. None of you have talked with a friend that has one.
Your all saying the your daddy is bigger than my daddy but you have not even seen my daddy. You sound like idiots.
R2, those articles don’t say much other than Palm feels threatened. Well of course they feel threatened… There is no doubt that the iPhone is a better product, but that doesn’t change the fact that up until this point, Palm has been the ONLY smartphone/pda manufacturer that has even bothered developing and supporting Mac users.. My Tungsten is a decent product, not great, but it is decent… I am appreciative that there was at least one company out there who for the last 5 or 6 years saw fit to work with Mac users before Apple decided to jump in the game.
Give Palm a break..
You’re right and those are wonderful points. However they were all wiped from the books the minute Palm became Apple’s enemy.
For every line of Apple products, there are one or two competitors that MDN deems the big bad wolf. Their CEOs will be ridiculed, stocks watched for any drops that can be attributed to the Apple product with which the company competes, etc. Ed Colligan’s words have painted the bullseye on Palm’s back. The list of related MDN articles belittling Palm will grow daily and everything bad that comes their way will be on account of the iPhone.
The bottom of that list will always show what started it all:
Palm CEO laughs off Apple ‘iPhone’ threat – November 20, 2006
R2, R2, you know, Palm didn’t say anything directly bad about Apple… He was speaking like a CEO speaks while trying to protect the interests of his company.. What would you expect him to say? “We’re doomed, it’s over, and Mac users should never buy our products again?’
You know, choices are good, competition is good. iPhone may not be for everyone, the price points alone could be a factor that would make some people consider other alternatives.. And it’s a good thing that Palm is around to be an alternative.
The point is, we need more companies like Palm who are willing to develop and play nice with the Mac platform, not less. I really hope that Palm doesn’t fail, because I fear it would set an example to other manufacturers that there is no hope in developing for the Mac platform.. I hope that iPhone will drive Palm to create better products for the Mac platform, not force them to abandon it or be bought out by a non-Mac friendly company.
With all that said, it should be noted that I’ll be replacing my Treo with an iPhone!
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…. I also hope that MDN will come round in it’s thinking in regards to companies like Palm… They are not the enemy, they are one of our only allies in this space…
Okay, I’m done now
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