We just finished listening to Palm’s earnings call for Q3 2010 and while there’s nothing that will blow your mind, there were a few tidbits we thought we should point out. First – we’ll just say at the outset that our longstanding concern about passion and knowledge about webOS inside Verizon was confirmed and then some – CEO Jon Rubinstein alluded to the challenges Palm faced launching after Droid a few times. Our favorite was when he expressed his own opinion which is pretty much mirrors ours:
We had an arrangement with Sprint that when we launched with Sprint that they would invest in marketing and carry the product and for that they would get an exclusive for a period of time. That really determined when we could do our launch at Verizon. I agree with your premise that if we could have launched at Verizon earlier, prior to Droid, that we would have gotten the attention that the Droid got and since I believe that we have a better product, I think we would have even done better.
More analysis of the earnings call – including why the coming quarter is most likely not going to be great for Palm – after the break.