Palm Misses the Boat

I started off with a Treo 600, then a 650, and then I went to the Motorola Razr, because of all things it was capable of making and receiving phone calls. The Palm devices were not. Now I support a handful of executives that "had" to have a Windows Handheld. So, I switched begrudgingly to the Treo 750. All I can say is "wow". The phone works, when checking email the phone still works. I will not say it is without bugs, and there are things that I don't like, but overall what I gave away in size from my Razr, the features and functionality are more than worth it. Now Palm has announced its Foleo. What a hunk of junk. $499 for a palm device that no longer fits in your palm, but is the size of a laptop.

Google Just Plain Rocks

I have long been a Google user. Their search results have always been superior. But now they have added Gmail, Google Docs,and Google Calendar. This weekend we had a family reunion and my wife was the only one who remembered a camera. She took about 75 pictures, and everyone wanted copies. It took about 3 minutes to download Picasa , and figure out how to upload the pictures to a private site.

All of which seamlessly just work. I have even shared a Google Document with another user, and been able to simultaneously be able to edit different sections of the same document. To say nothing of the fact that I can access it anywhere.

Google's ability to get applications that are actually usable to the public in the short time frame that they do is truly remarkable.