6 ms·
Palm founded in 1992. Apple offers to buy for $1Bn in 2002? Average of $100M per year in business... Palm sells to HP in 2010 for $1.2Bn. 1Bn in first 10 years
by whatevers2009 16y ago
Palm founded in 1992. Apple offers to buy for $1Bn in 2002? Average of $100M per year in business...
Palm sells to HP in 2010 for $1.2Bn. 1Bn in first 10 years and only $200M in the 8 years that followed? Wow. Should have sold in 2002!
- code_duck 16y agoI assume people with a stake in Palm are now not so happy now about not having sold to Apple. I wonder how that would have worked out, though.
- eftpotrm 16y agoFrom my memory of what Palm devices were like then and seeing what's happened since, IMHO Apple dodged a bullet there. Palm was an overvalued, overhyped company with a product line that was already hitting technical limits due to design ties to a too-slow processor and too-small screen, and one that's spent all the time since fighting to stay up-to-date and relevant. OT - a bit of checking a while back revealed that the larger current Smartphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S are roughly the same footprint as an old Psion Revo. I never had a Revo but did have a 5Mx and could touch-type on it fast enough to take notes. How I would love to have a phone with a keyboard that good, not the silly little things we get stuck with now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Revo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Revo
- chronomex 16y agoI have a Palm Pre. Previous Palm devices weren't that great from the little I've used them. WebOS is amazing though. It is, without exaggeration, the best piece of software I've ever used.