The highly-respected Ars Technica, a website not known for hysteria or sensationalist journalism, has posted its take on the current plight of Palm in the form of a new editorial entitled “RIP Palm: it’s over, and here’s why“.
In the Ars piece, author Jon Stokes pulls no punches and paints an extremely bleak future for the smartphone maker. Stokes surmises that one of only two fates remain for palm: an acquisition or insolvency. This article is already must-read for its general content but Stokes makes a masterful claim suggesting Palm has been suffocated by their very own cloud.
The article goes on to list a number of six primary causes (though arguably not all the reasons) for Palm’s current woes and the lukewarm market reception of WebOS and its accompanying devices. For brevity’s sake I’ll skip re-listing those reasons here as they have frequently discussed elsewhere and are quite commonly-known by now.