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26th Nov 2006: Palm not worried about a possible Apple iPhone

Palm CEO Ed Colligan found the idea ridiculous that a computer company can enter the mobile market and win a major chunk of it easily. "We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in." He further said that Apple is likely to rely upon their own stores to sell these Apple iPhone rather than collaborating with mobile service providers like Verizon and Cingular.

3rd Mar 2007 Palm hires ex-Apple engineer

In a move to fend off competition from the likes of Apple and Motorola, Sunnyvale smart-phone maker Palm has hired one of the engineers behind the vaunted iPod to work on future products.

Paul Mercer, helped create the original iPod operating system for Apple, joined Palm in February, according to a Palm spokeswoman. Mercer also brought along two employees from his current venture, Palo Alto device software company Iventor. Mercer was an Apple engineer during the late 1980s and early 1990s, working on a variety of products, including the Newton, Apple's ill-fated effort at creating a personal digital assistant device.