{"id":5556,"date":"2007-05-31T09:18:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T09:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/palm-foleo.html"},"modified":"2007-05-31T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T09:18:24","slug":"palm-foleo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/palm-foleo.html","title":{"rendered":"Palm Foleo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"214\" hspace=\"3\" width=\"320\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/images\/palm-foleo.jpg\" \/>I love gadgets and I love what Palm has done for the handheld market. I love the concept of Palm rolling out a new laptop-sized device. But that is where it ends. The new <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/\">Palm Foleo<\/a> has a fraction of the functionality of a Windows computer but is priced just under an equivalent laptop.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">It syncs nicely with your mobile device but then again so does your laptop.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I haven&rsquo;t had a chance to use this new product but in my mind I can think of virtually no one who needs it. There are likely narrow vertical markets that need computing power on a platform that doesn&rsquo;t get viruses but when we have laptops running Windows with millions of apps why on earth do we need a Linux-powered device that doesn&rsquo;t run most applications?<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Think of it this way. Even Apple has given into Windows and will warm-boot between it&rsquo;s OS and Windows. Palm has no traction in the market in this segment and this could be one of the worst moves ever made in computing.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I keep trying to come up with a scenario where the Foleo makes sense and I just can&rsquo;t. It seems doomed to me but perhaps Palm can morph it to be something useful down the line. But then again, I can&#8217;t see what that will be.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Palm would have been much better off making a truly functional ultra-mobile PC as if there is a market here that is going to be it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love gadgets and I love what Palm has done for the handheld market. I love the concept of Palm rolling out a new laptop-sized device. But that is where it ends. The new Palm Foleo has a fraction of the functionality of a Windows computer but is priced just under an equivalent laptop. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,172,188,116,156,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}