As if that’s not bad enough news for Palm’s assemblage of Apple castoffs, Paczkowski reports that Morgan Joseph Analyst Ilya Grozovsky recently wrote in a research note to clients, “‘We do not have significant unit assumptions for this product given the continued success of the iPhone at AT&T.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Ouch. Will Palm even make it to 2010?
Oh, and BTW, Paczkowski also reports, “Grozovsky is among those analysts who believe Pre sales are slowing. According to his checks, Pre sales fell from 200,000 units in June to 100,000 in July. He expects them to fall even further in August. And should this occur, a price cut may follow.”
MacDailyNews Take: Double ouch. Look on the bright side, Palm, with so few units out in the wild, it’ll be a cinch to clandestinely keep track of your users’ locations and apps. 
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Beleaguered Palm has been running on fumes for quite some time now, so it’s no surprise that it’s misfiring on all cylinders. This is what happens when a desperate, dying company dangles takeover bait and nobody bites.
“Poor, poor, derekcurrie” indeed! Seeing that someone (Geddy) said something that might possibly be construed as either anti-Mac or anti-MDN, has attacked the author.
Guess what: most of the posters here either have a clear Mac bias (some more than others) or are trolls. DUH!
Perhaps you intended to skewer “Childish“, instead? True, that post was more “Apple” than “Mac” (re: the iPhone), but at least your comment would have made some (qualified) sense!
And of course hate mongering from some generic coward is more compelling than fact. That’s the spirit of the age! If some HATE MEDIA propagandist sez it, it has to be true! If some troll sez it, it has to be true! Reminds me of the degeneration of the media in the USA. Have fun fighting over delusions little tykes.
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I took ‘Geddy’s’ post as sarcasm aimed at the anti-Apple types. No need to rip on him.
@Childish
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What’s the point of being part of a like-minded group if you can’t revel in your successes and perceived superiority?
I’ll admit that we sometimes take too much joy in the missteps and misfortunes of other companies. Historically, however, key representatives of these companies have baited, disparaged and belittled Apple, Apple products, and Apple supporters (a.k.a. fanboys, fanbois, fanatics, subjects of the SJ reality distortion field, etc.) with their own distortions, lies, and outright fantasies. Human nature being what it is, it feels good to see karma in a cage match with Palm, M$, Dell, and all of those other stooges.
But what you will also see in this forum (mixed in with the partisan politics and religious zealotry) is well-reasoned analysis and criticism of Apple products. Like Apple, we are only satisfied with the very best.
Here I am.
Hey, what’s with everyone pulling out the “Eos” name lately? Volkswagen did it, too. Thing is, a car is very different from a camera, but I would think that if the Palm had a camera built into it, Canon would have grounds to sue. Anybody remember Apple Records…?
That’s all the beleaguered I have for the day. Headed to the mountains with my Canons for some hiking and shooting. Have fun kids!
-c
@Missy Pants
haha first thought when I saw eos was canon
I always admired her Canons.
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Hey, Palm has fanboys too:
Analysts get antsy, start making calls on Pre success
We all love to pile on Palm, the former leader in handheld electronic gadgets. But, inexplicably, Wall Street still likes them. PALM has outperformed AAPL stock for the last year!
Either Wall Street knows something we don’t, or they’ve completely lost their minds. Both, probably.
@Mike
Hard to judge. My instinct would be to short Palm in a major way. But there might be some company that decides that acquiring Palm is a good idea, and that would kill a short position. In my opinion, it would also hurt the acquiring company because they would end up paying too much for far too little. There are many instances of poor major acquisitions, and few instances of beneficial major acquisitions.
One topic that has faded from the public limelight is Apple’s acquisition of P.A. Semi for $278M in April of 2008. I am waiting for the results of that acquisition to make a splash in terms of Mac products. It has been roughly 16 months since the acquisition, and the general consensus was that it would take at least 18 to 24 months for a P.A. Semi chip to make its was into a Mac product. I am looking forward to it!