Palm’s CEO: Apple Developed “Nothing At All”

Posted by dennis on February 18th, 2007 at 11:59am Comments

Palm’s president and CEO Ed Colligan gave a new interview to Swiss newspaper Sonntagszeitung that was published today. In it, he had the following to say about the Apple iPhone (rough translation from German):

“In my opinion it looks like a highly developed media player, which by a coincidence includes a mobile phone. It could be interesting for people that need to have both music and films on one iPod, as well as the occasional phone call.” But for businessmen and other types of users the touchscreen without a keyboard will be a challenge, said Mr Colligan.

According to him, besides computers and iPods Apple developed “nothing at all“. There’s a giant difference between giving speeches and actual development, went on to say Mr Colligan.

“However it will not be simple to create a good smartphone that would function on all different networks used in different parts of the world. Nokia, Motorola and Samsung worked on it for 25 years - and until today they’ve succeeded only partially,” admitted he. Although, according to Mr Colligan, the Palm Treo already has 90 percent of iPhone’s capabilities. And this at a “much lower price”.

Source: de.internet.com.

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