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Jeff Hawkins,Palm Foleo,输入为王，以及其背后的实用主义。
Jeff Hawkins 是我的偶像之一。娱乐数码，Jobs是老大；移动计算，Hawkins就是领袖。
像MS的Win Mobile，RIM的Blackberry这种锦上添花的事情，虽然美妙，但是人家不屑去干。领袖能靠整合别人创意过活吗？只要他一出手，你放心，一定是带响的。一般的动静还不行，至少一时无二，往往惊世骇俗。
Palm Pilot是他的代表作之一。当年的PDA市场，已经有Apple搞的Newton了。Apple有名，有人，有创意，有设计，跟里面赔了好几年的钱，没生意。。。而Jeff Hawkins 92年才和人成立Palm，搞了军用饭盒风格的Palm Pilot，生生把Newton干掉了。。。
Palm Pilot没见过真家伙，Palm IIIxe玩过。样子没怎么变，一廉价塑料盒子，看了就知道是纯粹的工具。相机里的LOMO，手表里的IWC，笔记本里的IBM X，一着一式没虚的。配套的OS也是一个风格，那个UI比今天的Win Mobile自然多了。
另外，仔细看屏幕的下半部分，是个专门的手写区，对应另一个独创发明Graffiti输入法。Graffiti能让你在很小的触摸屏上飞快的输入英文。没有他，PalmOS能做好的事情，至少缩水一半。
Palm发家之后，Jeff Hawkins另立门户了。在Handsprint，他搞出了Treo。2001的Treo180已经是带QWERTY键盘的智能手机了。Backberry呢？一年后才会出现。移动设备上QWERTY键盘从此火了。
到这里你应该发现了，他特别重视输入。从Graffiti到QWERTY键盘，移动计算领域输入的突破性进展，都出自他的手笔。
为什么总是输入呢？我觉得是源于真实的使用感受。结合今天的全尺寸键盘的Palm Foleo，思路就很自然了。。。其实从上个世纪开始一直没变：
输入，以及其背后的实用主义。
不过Foleo似乎上了歪道。。。如果做成全尺寸键盘+屏幕+wifi模块+大容量电池的简单设备。只负责输入，显示从智能手机过来的输出，另外可以给手机充充电，似乎更纯粹些。价格也能降不少。
搞个新系统，写一堆软件，就需要好的CPU/Memory的硬件配合了，最后竟然卖到了500美元。。。有些缘木求鱼了。。。
如果Palm Foleo最后成了流星。我先在这为他辩解一句：方向没开错，可能只是高速入口没看见~~~
Posted at 10:34PM on May 31st 2007 by realkhonsou
定位准确，分析明确
是为商务人士设计，如果让我做一个大胆的猜想，喜欢使用它的一般会是助理这类的人，喜欢用电子邮件的人，当然他们很多时候可能是在旅途中，在其过程中仍会出现繁忙的工作，并且往往会无暇个人娱乐。这是与现在智能手机和PDA和UMPC越来越多样化，更注重数字娱乐不同。
Palm秉承的理念是回归"simply is best!"
它的简单和高效正是让人有理由选择它的地方之一，全尺寸键盘，和手写输入，也正是这些让非常依赖写字（玩笑，是指商务人士处理的文字文件很多）的人有了好的着落。
有人肯定会说为什么他的功能这么少，没有他想要的，这里就不需要我的解释了，市场定位就是在这一块，喜欢把手机和电脑的某些功能融合在一块，注重实效的个人会选择购买，我想不象前面的仁兄所说，公司会集体大采购那样的状况出现，除非它形成的效应有如今天的iPod 和谷歌的igoogle在线产品那样。
虽然越来越多的便携设备应用暴露出更加的依赖网络的支持，但是值得提醒大家的是：分析其较窄的定位的话，一些行业使用会更加现实，已达到事半功倍效果。Palm不爱按照消费者的想法来改变自己的路线，正如在D会议上Jeff Hawkins提到现在foelo不会将网络视频播放加入，正是体现便携设备依赖网络的表现,他速度还不够快，因此如果现在的无线互联堪比宽带网络的话，他的出现纯属多余。
谢幕前的最佳表演？
盛传无线巨头诺基亚和摩托罗拉以及电脑巨头戴尔将竞价收购Palm公司。
以我一人鄙见，这也可以是象未来的东家展示自己品牌的才华。我觉得Engadget中文版的编辑忽略了告诉读者一个信息：Foele 是和Linux OS一道出现。
现在的Palm脚踩两只船--微软的Mb和Linux，在我看来则不仅是向他人示好的表现，而现在可以说这是较为明确的表示新东家的之争很有可能是在诺基亚和戴尔之间。在诺基亚的手机市场，E系列的表现不如N系列，并且推出了注入NX800这样基于Linux的无线产品，以示自己并未放弃Linux;摩托现在的手持通讯设备都是基于Linux;而戴尔已经于4月5日明确表示不再销售PDA,就意味着和当年索尼的Cile系列一样，推出黯淡的PDA市场，转入smart phone市场.而foelo的推出，其实有多层意思，自身转变或在别的旗下生存下来
而Palm注重自身，美国本土市场表现尤为重要，而非依赖我们这些国家的消费者来判断的。
Posted at 8:51PM on Jun 1st 2007 by 周鹏
读者回应 (第 1 页 / 共 1 页)
Gene @ Jun 16th 2007 9:39AM
吓我一跳，还以为要送palm，这次奖品又没我啊。。。伤心啊，哈哈
周鹏 @ Sep 5th 2007 6:03AM
As many of you are aware, we are in the process of building our next generation software platform. We are very excited about how this is coming together. It has a modern, flexible UI, instant performance, and an incredibly simple and elegant development environment. We are working hard on this platform and on the first smartphones that will take advantage of it.
In the course of the past several months, it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform design and a single focus for our platform development efforts. To that end, and after careful deliberation, I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all our energies on delivering our next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. We will, of course, continue to deliver products in partnership with Microsoft on the Windows Mobile platform, but from our internal platform development perspective, we will focus on only one.
Because we were nearly at the point of shipping Foleo, this was a very tough decision. Yet I am convinced this is the right thing to do. Foleo is based on a second platform and a separate development environment, and we need to focus our efforts on one platform. Our own evaluation and early market feedback were telling us that we still have a number of improvements to make Foleo a world-class product, and we can not afford to make those improvements on a platform that is not central to our core focus. That would not be right for our customers or for our developer community.
Jeff Hawkins and I still believe that the market category defined by Foleo has enormous potential. When we do Foleo II it will be based on our new platform, and we think it will deliver on the promise of this new category. We’re not going to speculate now on timing for a next Foleo, we just know we need to get our core platform and smartphones done first.
I would like to thank our customers for their interest in Foleo. I know there will be disappointed folks who were looking forward to carrying a Foleo for all their mobile computing needs. I am certainly one of them. I would also like to thank the developers who have supported our Foleo efforts. They have been loyal to Palm and have worked hard to deliver some compelling solutions on the Foleo platform. I know that they will understand that the right thing to do for the long run is to focus on one platform that will live for years, rather than invest energy in a one-off solution. We will make every effort to make sure we bring our developers forward to our next generation platform.
This decision will require us to take a limited charge of less than $10 million dollars to our earnings. This is a lot of money, but it is a small price relative to the costs that would be required to support two platforms going forward. This decision is in the best interest of our customers, our team, our products and our shareholders. I hope this renewed focus at Palm will allow us to deliver more compelling solutions to our core smartphone market, and it will allow us to position ourselves for the long run around one Palm experience.
Ed Colligan
President & CEO
Palm, Inc.
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