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“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
“It put the future in our pockets, then got pocketed itself.”
Palm was a line of personal digital assistants and smartphones marketed from 1996 to 2011 by California-based Palm, Inc., running the in-house Palm OS that was later licensed to other makers. Starting with the PalmPilot 1000, the devices became "the first wildly popular handheld computers," succeeding where Apple's Newton had failed. For a generation of users, the Palm was the device that ushered in the smartphone er
The line evolved through many generations: split in 2002 into the high-end Tungsten and budget Zire, joined by Treo phones after Palm bought Handspring, and refreshed in 2005 with the TX, Z22, and the one-of-a-kind LifeDrive hard drive PDA. When HP took over in 2010, the end came quickly, and the products were gone by 2011. What remains is the memory of a company that taught the world to carry its whole life in one h
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“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
“It turned the whole web into a tidy spreadsheet — order out of chaos, gone too soon”
“The first phone we stroked instead of pressed — it never stood a chance of being the last.”