Pro Foleo

Today Palm CEO Ed Colligan cancelled the Foleo.

Jeff Hawkins and I still believe that the market category defined by Foleo has enormous potential. When we do Foleo II it will be based on our new platform, and we think it will deliver on the promise of this new category. We're not going to speculate now on timing for a next Foleo, we just know we need to get our core platform and smartphones done first.

What a huge disappointment. I had my credit card ready, and so did a bunch of other folks. Where will we go now?

Remember the open letter from Engadget a couple of days ago? Well, Palm's Ed Colligan has responded to the challenges in the letter with a very polite post on the official Palm blog:

"Although I can’t say I agree with every point, many are right on. We are attacking almost every challenge you noted, so stay tuned. Let’s remember that it is very early in the evolution of the smartphone and there is enormous opportunity for us to innovate. We have only just begun to fight!"

Nice to see Palm respond to the letter, since it created quite a stir in the Palm community. Let's hope Colligan and company stay the course on the Foleo, instead of listening to Engadget's ridiculous call to "stop wasting money" on the product.