Comment by liveoneggs

I owned and loved a few palm pilots (and a handspring visor) but Palm was a nostalgia brand already by 2010.

In the proto-smartphone years they were competing with blackberry and losing in that "business-phone" use case. (Treo phones, etc) Maybe they got burned by the Palm VIIx! :)

DangerOS (sidekick phones) came out and had killer games and even Windows CE had a few devices out there, with Palm integrations iirc.

The year HP bought palm - 2010 - had the Android Nexus One and the venerable iPhone 4! HP never had a chance.

RIM (blackberry) was the only one who ever had a (distant) chance at a 3rd player in the smartphone universe at that time.