WHAT?!? PALM should NOT give in to NTP. period.
In a Forbes commentary, David Ewalt pretty much says because RIMM lost, PALM should roll over and play dead. That is just BULLSHIT.
NTP’s position is the way RF communicator to the mobile processor reads and delivers e-mail.
I am troubled with this because PALM’s design was not based on an e-mail system, like RIMM. Nor was the Treo designed to be e-mail specific. The Treo was a cellphone w/an organizer. That is it. (Treo history)
What NTP is basically saying is that the way the Treo handles e-mail belongs to them. But the Treo was/is simply a cell phone that can, currently, handle high speed wireless networks, due to the network creation. Is NTP claiming that they have a right to royalties to all cell phones accessing data networks? If this is the case, are they going to go after all the high speed network handset makers? Why/how does this technology belong to them? Qualcomm produced CDMA technology… will NTP ultimately say, ‘well , the way the data is converted from the network through the handset belongs to NTP.’
PALM needs to hold its ground for the sake of the industry. If they don’t no wireless provider will be safe. But then again, this is why they were considered invalid, and why RIMM settled for so little. Technology changed, and the way data is converted and gets handled is different. RIMM settled because they utilized the same concept of an enclosed system pushing e-mail, as Thomas Campana created, NOT THE WAY THE DATA WAS BEING CONVERTED in the hardware. PALM’s hardware is a collection of devices, ALREADY PATENTED BY THE COMPANIES THAT SELL THEM, in order to utilize current the wireless web… not specific to push e-mail, as RIMM.
The only thing that makes PALM special, then anyother phone on the market, is their Patented Treo Design (the shell of the phone), operating software (nothing to do w/e-mail pushing) and high quality of the product.
There is a reason why NTP did not go after MOT. (Nokia has an agreement w/NTP, but that is because they offer a push email closed system like RIMM.) NTP is ultimately seeking a royalty from every cell phone that can handle e-mail, and that is absolutely INVALID!
