It’s hard to top Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone in 2007, which felt even at the time like we were watching something world-changing. But the folks at Palm certainly tried.
Even two years after the iPhone was released in 2009, its competitors were still far behind, and some brazenly rejected Apple’s threat. Android was also just starting out, but lacked hardware that came close to the iPhone’s polish. Meanwhile, BlackBerry CEO Jim Balsille said the iPhone was “one more entrant into an already very busy space.” And Steve Ballmer laughed at it.
But in the same year the iPhone was released, Jon Rubinstein, who helped lead development of the iPod, left Apple for Palm: a company best known for its chunky (but beloved) PDAs. Then, two…
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