As Apple entered the Chinese mobile market with the iPhone yesterday , there have been rumors abound that Palm will not be hitting the Asian market until mid or even late 2010. This news will come as a big disappointment for Palm Pre fans all over the Asian continent, especially those in Australia where there had been real hope of the Palm Pre making it to market at some point. This is not the case with Palminfocenter suggesting that carriers in Australia had already been informed of this by Palm some while back.
These are testing times for Palm there is no doubt about that, with shares continuing to slide losing 13% in a day and 33.5% in October alone, things have been better. With Android 2.0 on the horizon and the Motorola Droid about to make it’s grand entrance Palm may also be losing on another vital front, that of the blogosphere. In the day and age of peoples minds being made up by both mass and niche media, an article like the one in Gizmodo which said that Palm had lost the fight of the Smartphones doesn’t do your ratings much good. The article paints Palm out to be like Apple was in the 80’s and 90’s , around but insignificant, with Microsoft winning the market share of the OS wars, it also suggests that Palm will not be able to survive like Apple did. [Read More…]
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