In a Palm press release dated 8 January 2009, the company’s president and CEO, Ed Colligan, said:

webOS and Pre bring game-changing simplicity to an increasingly mobile world by dissolving the barriers that surround your information […] to bring you what you care about most - your people, your time, and your information - in the easiest and most seamless way.

Now there’s a user experience target.

Every time a design decision of some sort needs to be made, the product team can ask themselves if a particular solution helps (or hinders) the cause.

Synergy will directly bear the burden of this mission statement.

It’s very exciting, but the stakes are high for this technology. This depth of integration is very tricky to accomplish, and even more difficult to make seamless. I don’t envy the folks leading the Synergy team; almost everything is riding on the quality of their delivery.

Good luck, gang.