Monday, August 18, 2003
Palm Changes Name To PalmOne
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 06:00 AM
http://palmone.com
Palm, Inc. is getting closer to their split. PalmSource has been the name of the software solution group for months now. The hardware company, internally called Palm Solutions has been officially renamed PalmOne.
"The name palmOne was chosen following interviews with a broad spectrum of Palm customers, partners, employees, naming consultants and industry influencers. When people inside and outside the company reflect on Palm’s essence, three ideas emerged consistently:
• the company’s heritage as a pioneer in handheld computing;
• Palm’s worldwide leadership, which it has retained despite an influx of competitors; and
• the conviction that Palm always would place customers first, thereby delivering what matters most to them."
Gets you right here doesn't it? {sniff}
You can read more about it in their press release. Doesn't really matter. Everything that fits in your hand that remotely resembles a PDA is still called a Palm Pilot. :roll:
You know, I wasn't planning on doing this, but this one just sticks in my craw. "The conviction that Palm always would place customers first, thereby delivering what matters most to them." When did they start doing that? It must have been sometime after they were dragged kicking and screaming into offering storage cards on their devices, color screens, voice recording, more than 2MB of RAM, etc. :? There is no question that in the PDA world, they were the last OEM to offer those, regardless of the operating system.
Palm, Inc. is getting closer to their split. PalmSource has been the name of the software solution group for months now. The hardware company, internally called Palm Solutions has been officially renamed PalmOne.
"The name palmOne was chosen following interviews with a broad spectrum of Palm customers, partners, employees, naming consultants and industry influencers. When people inside and outside the company reflect on Palm’s essence, three ideas emerged consistently:
• the company’s heritage as a pioneer in handheld computing;
• Palm’s worldwide leadership, which it has retained despite an influx of competitors; and
• the conviction that Palm always would place customers first, thereby delivering what matters most to them."
Gets you right here doesn't it? {sniff}
You can read more about it in their press release. Doesn't really matter. Everything that fits in your hand that remotely resembles a PDA is still called a Palm Pilot. :roll:
You know, I wasn't planning on doing this, but this one just sticks in my craw. "The conviction that Palm always would place customers first, thereby delivering what matters most to them." When did they start doing that? It must have been sometime after they were dragged kicking and screaming into offering storage cards on their devices, color screens, voice recording, more than 2MB of RAM, etc. :? There is no question that in the PDA world, they were the last OEM to offer those, regardless of the operating system.
