Ed Colligan
Ed Colligan
Edward "Ed" Colliganwas president and CEO of Palm, Inc. Colligan now is a small business investor, serves on a number of boards, and advises start-up companies...
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Smart phone sell-through reported by our carrier partners more than doubled over the year-ago period, validating our strategic decision to support multiple open platforms and offer a choice of smart phones based on either Windows Mobile or Palm OS.
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Achieving the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year double-digit revenue growth and growing our converged device market share to 36 percent in the United States are significant accomplishments.
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This is about growth, ... There are millions of people around the world who want that familiar Windows experience.
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Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,
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This is about growth and taking this whole category to the next level,
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Over time, all handheld computing products will become wirelessly enabled, and Qualcomm's CDMA technology provides a great path for enabling these solutions,
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Things have changed, ... We aren't in the underlying OS business anymore, which has freed us to partner with others.
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Palm's ... expertise, combined with Access' leading software development capabilities, will allow us to continue to deliver great products. Access is currently a software technology partner and we look forward to continuing our strong working relationship to advance the Palm OS platform.
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Europe is our next major target region. We will launch more products this year tuned to global demand.
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Customers and carriers have been asking for this.
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People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.
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The first Pilot organizer was such a runaway success, even we were a bit surprised. But in one of my first conversations with Jeff Hawkins he convinced me that the future of personal computing -- REAL personal computing -- was going to be in these highly mobile devices. That's why he designed the Pilot. And that vision still holds today. The Pilot and its many Palm successors have become an extension of millions of people's lives -- keeping them connected to their work and home, letting them do email and browse the web on the go, allowing them to keep all their favorite files, music, photos and videos with them. I'm enormously proud of what we've accomplished, and I'm even more excited about what's yet to come.
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We've been working on this for a number of years, ... It was probably the worst kept secret.
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U.S. sales are strong but there are more challenges in Europe, ... There are a number of existing brands there that are very strong. Our products have not taken off at the level we'd like them to so far.