webOS Community Gets Another Blow

The latest round of bad (alleged) news is making its way through the webOS community, this time around the fact that the webOS 2.X update for legacy devices may not arrive until sometime in the first quarter. Precentral reports: Palm promised that HP webOS 2.0 would be available by the end of 2010. In a way, they’ve delivered, if you want the updated operating system all you’ve got to do is buy a Palm Pre 2....

Rubinstein: Palm Brand May Not Be Carried Over

In all of the coverage of Jon Rubinstein’s talk at D:Dive Into Mobile conference, this bit seemed to have been lost. Or at least, I don’t remember seeing it covered (and I’ve been a bit busy and out of touch lately): Still, for all that work, Palm wasn’t going to be able to produce a mass-market hit on its own, Rubenstein said. That’s partly because Palm reentered a fast-moving market a little too...

Half of All Americans to Use Smartphones by End of 2011

In my last weekly column at WindowsRoundup.com, I discussed how HP Palm have some time to take advantage of the nascent nature of the smartphone market and its increasing fragmentation. I based this on the statistic of around 20% of Americans owning a smartphone today. It looks like I was just a bit off—in fact, according to data generated by pollster Nielson and reported by Asymco, the percentage is a little...

Rubinstein Talks About HP Palm and Mobility

Jon Rubinstein waxed strategic as he chatted the other night at the Churchill Club, where folks get together and look into the future of various industries and technologies. Talking about mobility, Ruby discussed why HP and Palm are well-positioned for success (if not uniquely positioned). Via HP’s Data Central blog: “What enables breakthroughs,” said Rubinstein, “is the convergence of technology, product...

Newest Column: What Chance Does webOS Really Have (Part 1)?

This week’s column is up over at webOSroundup.com. Go check it out. The gist: …HP Palm has time to build the right products, create the right ecosystem, and devise the right marketing plan. By the end of Q1 2011, Microsoft should have made some headway at least in educating the market about WP7. This should cause consumers looking at new smartphones to resist efforts by carrier sales reps to steer them in one...