http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/ Engadget Comments for Jon Rubinstein takes over as Palm CEO http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/
Apple has been trying to standardize hardware around the world and a virtual keyboard doesn't need a localized physical keyboard. Apple should have had a contract that wouldn't allow Rube to go to competitors, but maybe they thought this dude would just do more harm to the competitors than good, anyway. I hope the Rube is good enough to keep Palm running at least a couple of more years so their employees won't be out on the streets like those Motorola bastard executives caused.

Colligan should have been fired when he started to let the PalmOS wither and die as loyal Palmists waited for updates to the OS. Colligan and MacNamee, two of a kind. Vocal and always underestimating the competition.]]>Jun 10th 2009 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/
Rubinstein hasn't attacked Apple or Steve Jobs. He's had nothing but kind words and admiration for his old employer. He's the same old guy, likely an enthusiastic Mac and iPod user. So why attack him?

Don't let the lame fanboy battles on Engadget get to you so much. ]]>Jun 10th 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/
Even when you are the guy that was responsible for th products that help create these punk Apple fanatics, if you dont adhere to the cult, you will become a target too.

I swear these people are mentally deranged.]]>Jun 10th 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/rubinstein designed the phone and the computers that made apple what it is today.]]>Jun 10th 2009 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/
Thats the only sensible thing you said.... ]]>Jun 10th 2009 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/
I know you are a troll, but you make a point that is interesting. What you say would be mostly true, until you look at a market like the Japan. The iPhone struggles to sell there as the Japanese purchase more cell phones with a keypad to tap out their utterances. It's not like Apple has poor Japanese support either. iPhone's Japanese input support is some of the best I've ever seen. However, the Japanese are rushed people, always on tight schedules from the office to the subway train. Therefore they have no time to deal with an arguably superior virtual keyboard and prefer the accuracy of a physical keypad.

This also holds true for other Asian markets like China, Taiwan, and South Korea.]]>Jun 10th 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/..
>>> Ed Colligan as CEO for 16 years?!?

Ed Colligan has only been CEO for a few years, before that he was a marketing / product guy at the company since its inception.

He was the one who actually knew there was a problem and brought Elevation Partners into the picture. ]]>Jun 10th 2009 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/
I wondered why the iPhone hasn't made much of an impression in Japan, but thinking about it, a lot of popular foreign smartphones are equally marginalized. It's probably because the domestic market, free-with-contract models do so much anyway (TV, news, weather, train schedules, mobile internet, internet, email...) that there isn't a huge incentive.

And typing in Japanese on a numeric keypad makes a whole lot more sense than typing in English on a numeric keypad. Those of you with Japanese phones will know what I mean.]]>Jun 10th 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/
You have it all wrong. The reason the iphone doesn't sell well in Japan, is because the technology is decades behind in relation to hardware and such. The tech in Japan puts the iphone to shame, hell the tech in most standard phones in the Western world also puts it to shame, the only difference are the apple sheep in the Western world.]]>Jun 11th 2009 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/
I have to politely disagree. Japanese phones have been largely the same since shortly after the turn of the century. Sure, they have 1seg and are bordering on insane when it comes to the megapixels their cameras push. But, phones outside of Japan have become far more advanced in processing speed, battery life (use one of DoCoMo's new 1seg, 8 megapixel, rotating display monsters for a day and see what I mean), and visuals. Both Japan and rest of the world use UMTS, so Japan's networks aren't any faster currently.

I have asked Japanese people why they haven't considered an iPhone, and the reasons are mostly UI usability and personalization. Touch screen phones are much too fiddly compared to a keypad. On the personalization front you have to take a look at most Japanese cell phone users. Their phones are usually decked out, in the color of their choice, with a cell phone charm of their choice, with a background of their choice, and with a screensaver of their choice. None of this is available on the iPhone (the unlock screen doesn't count :).

In the end, I feel the iPhone is a superior phone to nearly all, if not all, of the Japanese market phones. However, even with Softbank offering the phone for practically free with contract, because of the cultural drawbacks, iPhone will remain unpopular.]]>Jun 11th 2009 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.crazyhawt.com/2009/06/10/100-hours-with-the-palm-pre-the-bad/]]>Jun 11th 2009 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/No matter where you go, everyone's computers use a regular old qwerty keyboard, with only slight differences between countries and continents. Sometimes you get different symbols, but all the keyboards work just fine as qwerty keyboards so clearly the layout is fine, and it's not like you can't print other symbols on hard keys...they do it for keyboards everywhere.
And a qwerty layout also lets you use phonetic entry systems like pinyin-which is relatively slow and painful, but it'd be even worse with a virtual keyboard.
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The next earnings call will be interesting.
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Ed Colligan was right. Mac guys did it.]]>Jun 10th 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/
Picture gallery from his official page: http://www.jamesmarsters.com/multimedia.shtml]]>Jun 10th 2009 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Jun 10th 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/jon-rubinstein-takes-over-as-palm-ceo/Pathetic,.,.they think 50k saved pre,.
Wake up to harsh reality,.]]>Jun 10th 2009 6:10PM