Following news that Michael Abbott was leaving Palm for Twitter, TechCrunch is churning out a couple more executive rumors today: First, that a 14-year Palm veteran and current VP of carrier marketing, Caitlin Spaan, is also leaving the company. Second, that Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein himself could be leaving.
Crazy, we know, especially given that who’s getting cited here are simply ‘industry sources.’ On top of that, our hunch is that going on a whirlwind tour of interviews certainly doesn’t seem like the behavior of a CEO on the outs.
We get it: there’s a general feeling out there that there’s another shoe to drop with Palm in the near future – but do you really think it’s going to involve a gigantic combat boot-sized executive shakeup? In the unlikely event Palm sees fit to make statement on this rumor-du-jour, we’ll let you know.
Update: @rboatright is in the next room over from us at Palm’s developer day and he reports that Rubinstein himself just quipped "I’m still here" to lots of laffs. Move along, everybody.