{"id":139990,"date":"2010-01-05T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/05\/palms-biggest-problem-sprint-digital-daily\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T14:09:25","slug":"palm%e2%80%99s-biggest-problem-sprint-digital-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/139990","title":{"rendered":"Palm\u2019s Biggest Problem: Sprint [Digital Daily]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/73d4a_sprintstore-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"sprintstore-150x150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31580\" \/>\u201cWere not for its lack of distribution, inadequate advertising, and resulting limited developer community, Palm would be shipping far higher unit volumes than it does today.\u201d So begins a research note from Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum that says the end of Palm&#8217;s carrier exclusivity with Sprint (S) can&#8217;t come soon enough. According to Gelblum limited distribution in the US through the number three wireless carrier has hamstrung Palm by limiting the addressable market for the company\u2019s new super-smartphones, the Pixi and Pre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe much of the scale issues Palm has experienced to date have been a function of its exclusive distribution agreement in the US with Sprint, which despite having deployed advertising dollars to the Palm brand, has seen negative net sub adds for 9 quarters and has had a mixed marketing message in its handset portfolio simultaneously promoting Palm, the Samsung Instinct, HTC Hero, and LG Fusion,&#8221; Gelblum writes. &#8220;However, we expect this to change rapidly in 2010 as the CEOs of both AT&#38;T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ) stated last summer that each would carry Palm webOS products after the exclusivity with Sprint expires which we expect to happen in calendar Q1 of 2010.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And once Palm has enough multi-carrier distribution support, well, lookout. With Sprint, Palm has an addressable market of 26 million potential subscribers. With Sprint, Verizon AND AT&#38;T, that market spikes to 196 million. Throw in China Telecom and it spikes again to 406 million. That\u2019s a large addressable market and one that will undoubtedly juice WebOS development. And a richer Palm apps environment will attract more subscribers to Palm and, in theory, bootstrap the company into relevance.<\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldaily.allthingsd.com\/20100105\/palms-biggest-problem-sprint\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWere not for its lack of distribution, inadequate advertising, and resulting limited developer community, Palm would be shipping far higher unit volumes than it does today.\u201d So begins a research note from Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum that says the end of Palm&#8217;s carrier exclusivity with Sprint (S) can&#8217;t come soon enough. According to Gelblum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}