Palm was a real tragedy, it's a case study of what happens when you can't meet your schedules. I had a couple of Treos and then the Pre. WebOS was years ahead of Android and iOS but unfortunately they put it on outdated hardware. If Palm had shipped when they were supposed to the tiny screen wouldn't have been a problem but they slipped by 7 or 8 months and as a result they came out only a month before the first Android which had a much bigger (for the times) screen. Palm never addressed their hardware problems, all they did was come out with a cheaper model and add some memory to the flagship but they never produced competitive hardware. Unfortunately they were bought by HP which was in the middle of their revolving door CEO crisis where they were firing their CEOs on a what seemed like a quarterly basis. HP at the time was reminiscent of the Soviet Union after the death of Brezhnev when their premier's were dieing one after another. There was a Russian joke about it, a man tries to go the Chernenko's funeral, the guard at the door asks him if he has a ticket, the man responds, a ticket, why I have a subscription to the whole series. HP's CEOs were like that and as a result instead of fixing Palm's hardware problems, which they could have afforded to do, they simply shut them down in less than a year.
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