o'neil dash voices my thoughts about Palm. It truly is a shame.

"Continuing in the vein of companies trying desperately to lose their markets to Microsoft, take a look at Palm. They had a tremendous, overwhelming dominance of the handheld OS market, and their current share of the market for new handheld sales is a little over 50%. They seem hell-bent on throwing away a market they singlehandedly resurrected with the original Palm Pilots....

Now the big thing that Palm is trying to push is their Palm OS 5. Besides being fully buzzword-compliant, the new OS features the stunning new innovation of Broken Backwards Compatibility. Yes, the only advantage Palm has, its broad range of useful, well-written apps, is being thrown in jeopardy. Granted, the existing Palm OS is such a piece of crap that it's a necessary step at some point. But these are the sorts of decisions that ex-CEOs long regret."