Vagina Effect Hits Palm

by Elias Shams
We witnessed how Vagina brought down the most powerful men in the world including our beloved former president, Bill Clinton, the former NY Governor, Elliot Spitzer , the former golf champ, Tiger Woods, and more to be brought down :-) We, men are not the only thing Vagina can bring down. She is even bringing down once known as the coolest gadget and the only smartphone on the planet, Palm.

Palm Smartphone

Just yesterday, I blogged about a recent survey of women dating men based on their smartphones. Those men with Palm were so at the bottom of the list to be desirable by chicks :-( which might explain why HTC also rejected them as their strong potential acquirer.

Poor old Palm has been desperately looking for a buyer for a while. Even after going cap in hand to all the world’s major handset makers, the firm still can’t seem to find a solid buyer.

But, there might still be a little bit of hope for them. According to Reuters, Lenovo has emerged as a clear favorite to buy Palm, which is rumored to be for sale to anyone willing to pony up about $1  billion.

Up until recently, many sources had pegged HTC as the clear favorite to acquire Palm, but the world’s fifth largest smartphone brand obviously doesn’t know what the dickens to do with the cash strapped company whose books aren’t up to scratch, with even Web OS deemed unworthy of HTC’s workhouse.  Frankly, With Android around, I don’t think there would be many takers for licensing Web OS. While I would want Palm to remain in business because it brings the much needed competition into the business, deep down in my heart, I really know they’ll probably declare bankruptcy sooner or later. When that happens, I do wish they at least open source Web OS.

Huawei, the world’s number two wireless telecoms equipment manufacturer was also rumored to be in the running, but subsequently refused to bid for the failing company.

Another potential buyer, I think makes sense, is NOKIA that would help them to dig themselves out of the grave they shuffled with the windows deal.

Anyway, this is a loss for the little guy. Palm practically invented the smart phone. They did so much for making mobile devices popular. They were great with developers. They only made the mistake of deciding to make WinMo phones and not updating their own OS for so long. But when they did, they released a fantastic product. It’s just a shame that a company which knows more about mobile than probably anyone else… it wasn’t good enough. What a shame :-(