Comments on: Palm Foleo: Did Palm Just Kill Treo and Laptop Computer? http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/palm-foleo-did-palm-just-kill-treo-and-laptop-computer/ Upgrade Your Lifestyle Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:06:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: HighTechGeek http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/palm-foleo-did-palm-just-kill-treo-and-laptop-computer/#comment-59905 HighTechGeek Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:26:56 +0000 #comment-59905 Mr. Enderle's Utopian vision of "modular computing" is not new and will never be realized until corporate attitudes regarding "proprietary" and "disposable" products change. This is why when a new cell phone is purchased, one must also buy a new car charger, power supply, cradle, data cable, battery, headset, etc. even though there is nothing wrong with the ones already owned. Corporations will almost always choose to maximize profits at the expense of the consumer. Mr. Enderle's Utopian vision of “modular computing” is not new and will never be realized until corporate attitudes regarding “proprietary” and “disposable” products change. This is why when a new cell phone is purchased, one must also buy a new car charger, power supply, cradle, data cable, battery, headset, etc. even though there is nothing wrong with the ones already owned. Corporations will almost always choose to maximize profits at the expense of the consumer.

]]> By: Brian http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/palm-foleo-did-palm-just-kill-treo-and-laptop-computer/#comment-59904 Brian Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:55:05 +0000 #comment-59904 In the movie "The Graduate", it was "Plastics".<br /> A joke at the time but Boeing is set to release the first of what many have coined the plastic airplane. Many iterations and a lot of failures between that movie and now.<br /> <br /> Palm is riding the second, third, Xth iteration of the modular "Device".<br /> Is this one going down? Meh, might have some success. As a device user in a vertical market, I'll get one and run it into the ground. My singular purchase along with a handful of others may or may not turn into a waterfall of profits for Palm in particular or the industry at large this go around but at some point it will.<br /> The trend to local storage of personal data (how else can your data be truly secure?) coupled with managed communications is established. Look at the advancement from a key chain drive to cell phones with Micro SD's (mine has 2 gig) then try to tell me that's not where it's going.<br /> My latest laptop just crashed and my high end games/apps require device specs that are not comfortable when crammed into that form factor.<br /> Have I made do for years? Yeah but that need to make do is going by the wayside now that the separate elements can be broken out and used as needed with a corresponding reduction in the overhead associated with carting around a portable! desktop. In the movie “The Graduate”, it was “Plastics”.
A joke at the time but Boeing is set to release the first of what many have coined the plastic airplane. Many iterations and a lot of failures between that movie and now.

Palm is riding the second, third, Xth iteration of the modular “Device”.
Is this one going down? Meh, might have some success. As a device user in a vertical market, I'll get one and run it into the ground. My singular purchase along with a handful of others may or may not turn into a waterfall of profits for Palm in particular or the industry at large this go around but at some point it will.
The trend to local storage of personal data (how else can your data be truly secure?) coupled with managed communications is established. Look at the advancement from a key chain drive to cell phones with Micro SD's (mine has 2 gig) then try to tell me that's not where it's going.
My latest laptop just crashed and my high end games/apps require device specs that are not comfortable when crammed into that form factor.
Have I made do for years? Yeah but that need to make do is going by the wayside now that the separate elements can be broken out and used as needed with a corresponding reduction in the overhead associated with carting around a portable! desktop.

]]> By: Drew G http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/palm-foleo-did-palm-just-kill-treo-and-laptop-computer/#comment-59903 Drew G Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:03:52 +0000 #comment-59903 Here is part of the catch why the Foleo might be interesting.. How many Windows machines do you want to maintain and more to the point synchronise with data, bookmarks etcetera? I can only be bothered with one personal machine and one work machine.. I still have objections to the Foleo and look at something like the HTC Advantage as a better solution as it too is adjunct or module based element to my computing needs. I will take a look at the Foleo though with an interest to how I might do things better.. Here is part of the catch why the Foleo might be interesting.. How many Windows machines do you want to maintain and more to the point synchronise with data, bookmarks etcetera? I can only be bothered with one personal machine and one work machine.. I still have objections to the Foleo and look at something like the HTC Advantage as a better solution as it too is adjunct or module based element to my computing needs. I will take a look at the Foleo though with an interest to how I might do things better..

]]> By: Nurhisham Hussein http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/palm-foleo-did-palm-just-kill-treo-and-laptop-computer/#comment-59902 Nurhisham Hussein Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:39:59 +0000 #comment-59902 The Flybook's a Taiwanese device, not European.<br /> <br /> @Jason<br /> <br /> The cheapest UMPCs are not much more expensive than the Foleo (around $700), and about the same weight. The Flybook's a Taiwanese device, not European.

@Jason

The cheapest UMPCs are not much more expensive than the Foleo (around $700), and about the same weight.

]]> By: Jason Howard http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/palm-foleo-did-palm-just-kill-treo-and-laptop-computer/#comment-59901 Jason Howard Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:01:01 +0000 #comment-59901 A UMPC is much more expensive then $500, and they are heavier then the Foleo, right?<br /> <br /> I can see Rob's points. A UMPC is much more expensive then $500, and they are heavier then the Foleo, right?

I can see Rob's points.

]]> By: Tantrum http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/palm-foleo-did-palm-just-kill-treo-and-laptop-computer/#comment-59900 Tantrum Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:38:38 +0000 #comment-59900 I think Palm has just committed suicide. The Foleo is a joke product. For $500 you could buy a cheap laptop. No one wants to pay this much for something so limited. I think Palm has just committed suicide. The Foleo is a joke product. For $500 you could buy a cheap laptop. No one wants to pay this much for something so limited.

]]> By: DMZ http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/palm-foleo-did-palm-just-kill-treo-and-laptop-computer/#comment-59899 DMZ Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:20:25 +0000 #comment-59899 The problem is that they're competing with UMPCs - and UMPC prices are falling fast while their specs rise quickly. The Foleo doesn't do anything a UMPC can't, whereas the UMPC can do any number of things the Foleo can't. The problem is that they're competing with UMPCs – and UMPC prices are falling fast while their specs rise quickly. The Foleo doesn't do anything a UMPC can't, whereas the UMPC can do any number of things the Foleo can't.

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