Taking credit for killing the Palm Foleo

You may have heard that Palm has scrapped its Foleo "mobile companion" project, which was taking a beating in the technology blogosphere for distracting Palm from focusing on its smart phone devices and next-generation operating system.

More important, everyone's lining up to take credit for the Foleo killing – from Engadget, which wrote an open letter to Palm about its troubles last month (Palm president Ed Colligan even wrote a thank-you note blog post to Engadget), to Gizmodo (well, at least one of the commenters is claiming that Gizmodo killed it). The Wall Street Journal's "All Things Digital" Web site, which hosted the event where the Foleo was announced, posted the original Foleo interview video where Jeff Hawkins talked about the new device (although they didn't trash the device as much as other sites did, you gotta respect the D conference for at least posting the original video for people to see on the day of its demise).

So since it's the vogue thing to do this week, I'm throwing my hat into the "taking credit for killing the Foleo" ring as well – here's my Cool Tools column from May 30, which comments about the muddy waters that Palm was entering with its device.

Thank you, thank you, no thanks are necessary (although Ed Colligan, if you want to write me a thank-you note, that's fine too).

• Wireless / Mobile
• Foleo
• gadgets
• Jeff Hawkins
• Palm