Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS

Chris Ziegler dives into a twisting tale of bad circumstances and tough decisions.

Thirty-one.

That’s the number of months it took Palm, Inc. to go from the darling of International CES 2009 to a mere shadow of itself, a nearly anonymous division inside the HP machine without a hardware program and without the confidence of its owners. Thirty-one months is just barely longer than a typical American mobile phone contract.