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Palm Cancels Foleo

Tuesday September 4, 2007 4:05 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
In a surprising move, Palm has discontinued the unreleased Foleo mobile companion product that was announced with much fanfare at this year's D: All Things Digital Conference.

The blog entry written by Palm CEO Ed Colligan states that "it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform design and a single focus for our platform development efforts."

Canceling the Foleo will cause Palm will take a $10 million dollar hit to their earnings. They plan to focus on their single platform and will consider introducing the Foleo again in the future based on their one platform:

We're not going to speculate now on timing for a next Foleo, we just know we need to get our core platform and smartphones done first.


Palm has certainly seen pressure from Apple's iPhone introduction as well as some public criticism.
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siurpeeman
58 months ago
i'm not surprised. the foleo did too little in a package that was too big.
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newguineafan
58 months ago
Wow, not looking good for Palm, is it??
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Sandfleaz
58 months ago
You had to see this coming .. introduced a few weeks before the launch of the iPhone. Even with out the iPhone it was the answer to a question nobody was asking.
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kbrain2929
58 months ago
Hmm... Dang! (sarcasticly) Bad for Palm... good for Apple! Good for Apple = Good for me! :apple:
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Cameront9
58 months ago
Given the extremely negative reaction from the Press and from users, I wouldn't call this move surprising at all.

Heck, I'd completely forgotten about the product until this story remineded me.
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madmaxmedia
58 months ago
Good job. Because before today, I guess multiple, inconsistent user experiences was their goal. WTF?
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Taylor C
58 months ago
Definitely not surprising. The Foleo was a ridiculous product in my opinion, it was just unnecessary.
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nsbio
58 months ago
How long did it take them to figure it out??? The Palm CEO is an exceptionally smart guy, having authored a must-read book ("On Intelligence"), yet at the same time makes dumb moves, releasing a ridiculous product befitting an idiot. Being smart and an idiot aren't mutually exlusive things after all....
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DaveLG526
58 months ago
This was a good decision. It is fortunate in hind sight that there was an incompatibility between the two OS systems that delayed introduction. Killing a bad product before market introduction takes some courage but it is less costly and embarrassing to face the music rather than having the market force a decision after introduction.

Right now PALM seems to still have no clear path.
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majordude
58 months ago
A mini-laptop with a fat Treo phone?!

What the hell were they thinking?!

Foleo? It's more like Fooleo.

Besides, Palm is so 1998.
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