Palm shipped less than 1 million Pre smartphones in the last quarter, which was enormously better than the previous quarter but a nosedive from a year ago. Taking a page from the playbooks of Gates and Jobs, Palms Rubenstein is ditching Windows Mobile to focus on Palms WebOS.
– Though Palms Pre received positive reviews and saw initially strong sales, they were only enough to buoy, not rescue, the sinking phone maker.
On Sept. 17, Palm reported total revenues of $68 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, which was down from $366.9 million in the same period t…