Palm is Executing (In a Good Way)
During
Palm's Quarterly Conference call, CEO Jon Rubinstein said that Palm had four main areas of focus:
- Make a family of products
- Establish Palm webOS as a premier development platform
- Build greater awareness of the Palm brand
- Ensure outstanding execution
Palm's hitting all these points. Let's take the points out of order, because we feel like it. Follow us after the break for thoughts on all four plus some tidbits on how the Thursday launch for Paid Apps and webOS 1.2 is coming along (hint: very very well)
Point the first: With the Pixi (and with more carrier pickup in the coming months), we have a family of devices here. In point of fact, assuming Palm hits their targets for releasing the Pixi and the GSM Pre, it's probably fair to say they're releasing multiple devices more quickly than a casual observer might expect.
Point the third: Palm has some more work to do here, but they made a
small splash at the Emmy Awards and, well, they've got those TV commercials. It's also obvious that the tech-set is talking about Palm in a way they haven't ever seen before.
Now let's take point two: Only three-ish months after release, Palm is moving their App Catalog out of Beta and will begin selling paid apps. You remember this
leaked PDF of the schedule for the paid app update to the App Catalog, don't you? We're anxiously awaiting not only paid apps, but also the webOS 1.2 update that seems necessary in order to run the updated version of the App Catalog.
Right on schedule, our anonymous tipsters tell us that their new developer portal will indeed be ready to rock at noon Pacific, meaning developers can (and should) upload their for-apps today so that eager users can download them on Thursday. Unlike what the document states above, Palm has made it easier by not requiring free-apps be re-uploaded to the new system. Palm's team looks to be running like a well-oiled machine.
Heck, it even looks like
our readers don't mind laying down a bit more than our cheapskate thrifty iPhone-toting friends.
All that leaves is point four: execution. Palm's favorite response to impatient users and interviewers is to emphasize that they're being "methodical." It's a good response. It hints that people need to be patient, sure, but it also says "We have a plan and we're going through that plan as we speak."
We can quibble about the details of that plan (tying themselves so closely to Sprint at the beginning, for example, seems like a mistake to us), but the point remains that Palm is executing on it. With a little luck (and a little bit more cash), they should be able to continue to do so for a long time.
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