{"id":5855,"date":"2007-09-05T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T11:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/good-bye-foleo.html"},"modified":"2007-09-05T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T11:26:41","slug":"good-bye-foleo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/good-bye-foleo.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Bye Foleo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">On May 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2007 I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/palm-foleo.html\">mentioned<\/a> the Palm Foleo was doomed. Specifically I wrote the following:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">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<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I finished off the post with:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\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<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In today&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/09\/05\/2913182.htm\">news<\/a> we learn the Foleo is now being discontinued making it one of the shortest product launches to failures in history. The company is going to relaunch Foleo II at some point in the future but this is a mistake unless it is an UMPC.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 31st, 2007 I mentioned the Palm Foleo was doomed. Specifically I wrote the following: &nbsp; 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. &nbsp; I finished off the post with: &nbsp; Palm would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,188,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855"}],"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=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}