Comments on: Palm CEO slams Q, doesn’t want to vanquish enemies http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/08/23/palm-ceo-slams-q-doesnt-want-to-vanquish-enemies/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Thought http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/08/23/palm-ceo-slams-q-doesnt-want-to-vanquish-enemies/comment-page-1/#comment-41265 Thought Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:50:06 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/08/23/002185/#comment-41265 One more observation: Mr. Colligan doesn't want to vanquish his corporate competitors because he knows that he cannot. Right now Palm does not enjoy that type of advantage in its products or corporate resources. He is correct in an implied way: that the consumer/prosumer market is more fragmented and fickle than the enterprise segment, and so it is harder to vanquish your enemies, and especially, to keep it that way. He is also correct in that the smartphone market will only grow, and so it is possible to grow without appreciably expanding market share against competitors. Put another way: if you basically keep the same percentage slice of a growing pie, you will grow as well. One more observation: Mr. Colligan doesn’t want to vanquish his corporate competitors because he knows that he cannot. Right now Palm does not enjoy that type of advantage in its products or corporate resources.

He is correct in an implied way: that the consumer/prosumer market is more fragmented and fickle than the enterprise segment, and so it is harder to vanquish your enemies, and especially, to keep it that way.

He is also correct in that the smartphone market will only grow, and so it is possible to grow without appreciably expanding market share against competitors. Put another way: if you basically keep the same percentage slice of a growing pie, you will grow as well.

]]> By: Thought http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/08/23/palm-ceo-slams-q-doesnt-want-to-vanquish-enemies/comment-page-1/#comment-483361 Thought Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:50:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/08/23/002185/#comment-483361 One more observation: Mr. Colligan doesn't want to vanquish his corporate competitors because he knows that he cannot. Right now Palm does not enjoy that type of advantage in its products or corporate resources. He is correct in an implied way: that the consumer/prosumer market is more fragmented and fickle than the enterprise segment, and so it is harder to vanquish your enemies, and especially, to keep it that way. He is also correct in that the smartphone market will only grow, and so it is possible to grow without appreciably expanding market share against competitors. Put another way: if you basically keep the same percentage slice of a growing pie, you will grow as well. One more observation: Mr. Colligan doesn’t want to vanquish his corporate competitors because he knows that he cannot. Right now Palm does not enjoy that type of advantage in its products or corporate resources.

He is correct in an implied way: that the consumer/prosumer market is more fragmented and fickle than the enterprise segment, and so it is harder to vanquish your enemies, and especially, to keep it that way.

He is also correct in that the smartphone market will only grow, and so it is possible to grow without appreciably expanding market share against competitors. Put another way: if you basically keep the same percentage slice of a growing pie, you will grow as well.

]]> By: Thought http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/08/23/palm-ceo-slams-q-doesnt-want-to-vanquish-enemies/comment-page-1/#comment-41264 Thought Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:36:49 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/08/23/002185/#comment-41264 Colligan can breathe a sigh of relief (and even show some cockiness) and slam the Q...the Q no doubt has done well, but hasn't exactly taken over the market...the Q has a more desirable form factor but is handicapped by the Windows Mobile OS. The Pearl will not have such problems with its OS...but will still have a more desirable form. In fact, it's size and shape will be preferrable even to a Q...it will be even easier to carry around. So Colligan couldn't say much about RIM now because in the enterprise market he's already lost, and in the consumer market, he wouldn't comment on an unreleased product. Colligan can breathe a sigh of relief (and even show some cockiness) and slam the Q…the Q no doubt has done well, but hasn’t exactly taken over the market…the Q has a more desirable form factor but is handicapped by the Windows Mobile OS.

The Pearl will not have such problems with its OS…but will still have a more desirable form. In fact, it’s size and shape will be preferrable even to a Q…it will be even easier to carry around.

So Colligan couldn’t say much about RIM now because in the enterprise market he’s already lost, and in the consumer market, he wouldn’t comment on an unreleased product.

]]> By: Thought http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/08/23/palm-ceo-slams-q-doesnt-want-to-vanquish-enemies/comment-page-1/#comment-483360 Thought Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:36:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/08/23/002185/#comment-483360 Colligan can breathe a sigh of relief (and even show some cockiness) and slam the Q...the Q no doubt has done well, but hasn't exactly taken over the market...the Q has a more desirable form factor but is handicapped by the Windows Mobile OS. The Pearl will not have such problems with its OS...but will still have a more desirable form. In fact, it's size and shape will be preferrable even to a Q...it will be even easier to carry around. So Colligan couldn't say much about RIM now because in the enterprise market he's already lost, and in the consumer market, he wouldn't comment on an unreleased product. Colligan can breathe a sigh of relief (and even show some cockiness) and slam the Q…the Q no doubt has done well, but hasn’t exactly taken over the market…the Q has a more desirable form factor but is handicapped by the Windows Mobile OS.

The Pearl will not have such problems with its OS…but will still have a more desirable form. In fact, it’s size and shape will be preferrable even to a Q…it will be even easier to carry around.

So Colligan couldn’t say much about RIM now because in the enterprise market he’s already lost, and in the consumer market, he wouldn’t comment on an unreleased product.

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