“If they start making products people don’t want, and start losing users, then Apple’s strategy will run into problems,” said Benjamin Reitzes, an analyst at  Barclays Capital. “If they continue to have an aura where their products are seen as defining the marketplace, they are going to be fine.

Has there ever been a business whose strategy was to “start making products people don’t want, and start losing users” ?

Why in the world did they quote that clown?

Palm unveiled their first Windows Mobile Treo today…

As a palm user since around 1996, and a Treo 600 user from the minute they came out (I had seen one early, for about 2 seconds, in the hands of uber-designer Peter Skillman and HAD to have it) I am greatly saddened.

The reason the device was successful, in my opinion, was the simplicity of the PalmOS. It does a few simple things and it simply does them well. Originally the Address Book and Calendar. The addition of the phone was both a no-brainer and a home run. Lots of other companies tried, but they could not match the good, clean design of the Treo or the simplicity of the Operating System. Remember that bulky blob of a thing Qualcomm could never get off the ground? The pdQ. Blech. The Kyocera pdQ2. Ewww.

…the weight of Windows may come as a shock to existing Treo users.

Another step backward is the reduction of screen resolution from 320 x 320 to 240 x 240 because, you guessed it, Win Mobile can’t support the higher resolution.

I can’t imagine putting up with that garbage and overhead. Who needs it?

Count me out.

Arrrg!

Unfortunatly, I did not have the sense to look at Version Tracker first – where it has been vary fairly reviewed. Doh!

The software is, to put it mildly, a piece of JUNK. It totally hosed my Mac by changing all sorts of permissions. I tried to open Dreamweaver, for instance, and was asked to authenticate. Won’t even let me use it when I type the admin password. Huh?

Even after running AppleJack, I seem to still to be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. :-(

It is indeed an attracive and compact bit of folding plastic – that looks a little bit like translucent fish bones. And it is at a nice angle for draining. The problem is that dishes don’t stand up in it, as advertised, rendering it entirely useless for its stated purpose. Avoid.

Amen. What a waste of good space. Plenty of room to build apartments to house all the creative types (who give the city the flavor that makes it great) who are being squeezed out by the investment banker types and rent decontrolling.