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2009.4.18 - Where did Palm go?
Recently I was helping a client setup their phone for Google Apps' mail (Just GMail with a different face).
I had gone through some very helpful support articles which included instructions for phones running Android,
Windows Mobile 5 and 6,
iPhone,
Blackberry, and the list goes on.
The client had told me they were running a Treo 700, which I assumed was running Windows Mobile 5 or 6.
After some research, I found that their version was actually a Treo 700p running Palm's OS, not the Treo 700w running Windows Mobile.
In looking for instructions for setting this up, help was scarce, even from Google's extensive mobile help knowledgebase.
Considering their former prominence in the mobile market, one would think that legacy support for Palm's operating systems would still be strong.
Granted, I have not used a Palm in over 10 years, and back then it was a basic Palm Pilot PDA in black and white, but for many years they were the prevailing mobile device manufacturer.
In light of their market domination in handheld devices between 2000 and 2005, I became curious about how they disappeared so quickly.
In doing a little research, it seems that Palm just missed the boat on the smartphone industry.
They had an early competitive advantage in the market, but were late to market and slow to innovate in the smartphone revolution.
The idea of a PDA without a phone built-in is redundant these days, with the only exception being the iPod Touch.
Palm is all but dead in the phone market and smaller PDA market these days.
The strangest part about Palm's lingering PDA presence is their online Palm shop.
They still list three models of phone-less PDA's,
but when viewing their availability, all three report that "This product is not currently available on the Palm Store".
In memory of Palm's former market presence, I reviewed our user agent logs to get an idea of what we've seen over the years.
Over the last 4 years, we have captured about 70 variations of Palm user agents,
few of which ran Palm OS.
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2010.1.12
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Happy 4th Birthday, Bots vs Browsers!
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2009.7.12
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300,000 User Agents!
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2009.5.31
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Summer Bots make a splash!
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2009.4.18
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Where did Palm go?
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2009.2.18
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Happy Belated 3rd Birthday to Us!
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2008.11.23
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Bots should be thankful
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2008.10.22
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Would you say I have a plethora of new bots?
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2008.9.6
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200,000 User Agents!
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2008.8.3
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Here comes August...
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2008.7.13
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2,000 bots!
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2008.7.6
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Dog Days of Summer Bots
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2008.6.23
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Another one bites the dust
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2008.6.22
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Bots don't run out of gas
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2008.6.19
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And we're back...
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2008.1.21
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Happy 2nd Birthday!
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2007.10.25
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The Creature Post
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2007.9.7
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iTunes, Facebook, Google Earth, and more
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2007.7.22
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Hot Summer Bots
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The Apple iPhones have landed!
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2007.6.13
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Twiceler calls off the bots
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2007.6.13
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Twiceler Strikes!
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2007.6.3
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Land of 1,000 bots
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2007.4.22
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April Bots Bring May Traffic... (we hope)
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2007.4.16
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Spring Cleaning in the Web Traffic Logs
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2007.3.24
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March Bot Madness
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2007.3.10
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Got Spiders?
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2007.2.24
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Some New Faces (bots, of course)
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2007.2.10
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Winks, DataFountains, Hijacks, and Tool - what's the connection?
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2007.2.3
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February Stars
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2007.1.12
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Happy 1st Birthday!
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2007.1.1
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The 2007 bots are in!
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2006.12.23
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Have a Merry-Bot-Christmas
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2006.12.12
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50,000 User Agents!
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2006.11.4
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2 weeks, 19 new bots
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2006.10.17
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2 weeks, 30 bots
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2006.10.2
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4 weeks, 23 bots
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2006.9.9
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Playing catchup with the bots
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2006.8.26
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500 bots!
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2006.8.20
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5 days, 8 bots
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2006.8.15
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Two weeks, 15 new bots
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2006.8.2
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Another week, another gang of new bots
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2006.7.25
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40,000 User Agents!!!
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New category, bot revisions, and 6 new bots for July 4th
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2006.6.25
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New batch of imports!
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2006.6.18
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5 new bots, just in time for Father's Day!
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2006.6.4
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8 new bots for the database
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2006.5.19
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A couple new sightings
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2006.5.9
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Quiet week, one new bot
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2006.5.2
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A few new bots
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2006.4.20
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A quick bot-sighting update
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2006.4.12
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More user agents, more bots
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2006.3.19
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5,000+ New User Agents
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42 more bots, lots of new user agents
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2006.2.19
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New Bots and Browsers just addded!
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2006.1.25
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Welcome to Bots vs Browsers!
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2006.1.17
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Welcome to the User Agents Database that has no name yet!
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2006.1.12
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Day One
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