The $53.3 Billion Palm Pilot That Sold for $1.2 Billion

The rise and fall of Palm and the Palm Pilot is the story of a $53.3 billion giant that sold for $1.2 billion. In March 1996 a $299, 5.5-ounce device with four apps sold a million units in 18 months and owned two-thirds of the handheld market. The film traces Jeff Hawkins's shirt-pocket wood block, Graffiti and HotSync, the 1998 split into Handspring and PalmSource, the Treo and webOS, and HP's 49-day TouchPad disaster to LG putting webOS on 100 million TVs.