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“There is a tide in the affairs of men. <\/span><\/p>\n Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; <\/span><\/p>\n Omitted, all the voyage of their life?<\/span><\/p>\n Is bound in shallows and in miseries”<\/span><\/p>\n These words written by William Shakespeare from “Julius Caesar” should be the epitaph on Palm’s tomb when it is bought out or closed down in the coming months. <\/p>\n Palm has squandered opportunities to sew up the PDA\/ smartphone market on no fewer than three occasions since the turn of the century and finally enough should be enough. Palm blew their unrivalled position as the leader of the nascent PDA market, then blew the opportunity to be the first dominant player in the smartphone market and then this time last year we were all waiting for the launch of the Palm Pre with breathless excitement (yes we were). Here at last was a phone to rival and maybe outgun the iPhone being launched on a CDMA network. Everyone anticipated that the Sprint exclusive would be short-lived and that the real fun would start when the handset moved to Verizon.<\/p>\n How wrong we were, and frankly we should have known better. ‘Twas ever thus with Palm. Through a combination of poor styling, poor marketing, poor everything, Palm completely missed their moment yet again and before they knew it Android handsets were being launched daily and the chance had gone. Somehow and for some reason Palm has always been jinxed and the only question being asked now is who will buy them and inherit the wonders of webOS.<\/p>\n So here’s my advice for any of the pretenders. “Don’t do it!” Let this one quietly wither and die as its cash slowly runs down. Nothing good can come from it. I am not the remotest bit superstitious, but for some reason and without fail any product that comes out of this stable seems doomed to pull defeat from the jaws of victory.<\/p>\n In the past few days I have read countless speculative articles from analysts far more qualified than me making the case for literally everyone to buy Palm, or rather the rights to webOS, either to take a stance in the mobile market or as a defensive measure. By consensus the front runners seem to be HTC, who should buy because they make best handsets for other people’s operating systems, and Lenovo, who should buy because they would then be able to make great tablet computers and\/or smartphones. Maybe RiM could solve their image problems by an acquisition or even Nokia with its 40%+ global share might find Palm a good way to gain a significant foothold in the US market (if you call 4% and declining a foothold).<\/p>\n At $1bn no one is going to be put off by the price, and the momentum of the deal dictates that somewhere right now, there are corporate development people burning the midnight oil working out how to make Palm look like a no brainer in a 200-page, artfully created Powerpoint presentation. Soon, executives will gather deep into the night to make their momentous decision, and the bankers will earn their spectacular fees. This isn’t sound financial advice, but here’s my advice to them all. Save your money, buy yourself an Incredible, a Galaxy S, and HD2 or an EVO 4G and get a good night’s sleep. There are better deals and better companies to be had in the morning.<\/p>\n Check out BestBuy Mobile<\/a> for other cellular news, videos, and How Tos.<\/p>\n “There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life? 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