Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein also got a parody Twitter account over the weekend.
It was a man named Jon Rubinstein, who now works for HP (NYSE: HPQ).
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Palm Executive Chairman Jon Rubinstein led the teams that created the iPod and the iMac at Apple.
No surprise that many of the folks brought into Palm by Apple veteran Jon Rubinstein come straight from Apple.
In January 2012, Jon Rubinstein, former top engineer at Apple and then CEO at Palm, left Hewlett-Packard (HP) after serving his 24 months.
Some expressed sympathy for HP employees, particularly Jon Rubinstein, the former Apple executive who joined a revitalized Palm in 2007 and became its CEO in 2009.
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His obsessive focus on getting products to look the way he wanted, no matter what the impact on cost and manufacturing time, led to frequent clashes with Apple's hardware chief Jon Rubinstein.
More troubling than that news, however, is a rumor which also appears on TC suggesting that CEO (and putative savior of the company) Jon Rubinstein may be on his way out as well.
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In the face of a near-constant stream of buyout rumors the past couple weeks, Palm boss Jon Rubinstein is holding the line he's held ever since he's taken the helm -- well most of the line, anyway.
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While that was going on, on April 24th Jon Rubinstein and his advisors directly told HP that its offer wasn't competitive and that it had to "significantly and immediately" improve its offer in order to remain in the game.
"Europe continues to be an important region for Palm, and we're proud to work with O2 and Movistar to spread the excitement Palm Pre has already ignited in North America, " said Jon Rubinstein, Palm chairman and chief executive officer.
Palm recognized that it was in trouble in early February, a few weeks before it posted its disappointing quarterly results, and on February 17 the company organized a committee headed by CEO Jon Rubinstein to investigate its options -- everything from licensing webOS to selling the company was on the table.
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