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Palm Pre vs. iPhone in Google Search Popularity

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mobilehavoc
06/18/09

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Check it and STFU

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Jason Chen
06/18/09

@mobilehavoc: Thanks for the link, but I'm banning you because you were a dick.
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ZurielPelias
06/18/09

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"3000" countries? There are just over 200 countries on the planet. WTF?
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Jason Chen
06/18/09

@ZurielPelias: It was a joke.
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diamonddnice
06/18/09

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so fricken in secure! Now you're checking to find out how many times someone searched for the your phone? Pathetic! It's like a teenage girl going, "Did he ask about me? huh? did he? Ok Did he ask about me now? What about now?"
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Jason Chen
06/18/09

@diamonddnice: Not sure what you're getting at. We use both phones here, because we HAVE to, in order to be informed about coverage.
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St3v3
06/18/09

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There's no question the Pre has benefited from media created hype. It is a nifty device but really isn't an iPhone killer by any means. Maybe the nostalgia of the Palm brand excited folks or maybe big marketing dollars were thrown around but either way it was so overblown. Having said that I'd take a Pre in a heartbeat. However, I can't say I wouldn't be tempted to sell the Pre on eBay and go pick up a new iPhone.
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Dillinger23
06/18/09

@St3v3: I enjoy the circles you talk in.
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St3v3
06/18/09

@Dillinger23: I'm sorry, let me talk in non objective fanboy terms, "OMFG the iPhone is seriously amazing, holy crap why did they even bother to make the Pre. Palm is so lame!!!!!" Better?
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Kaiser-Machead
06/18/09

@St3v3: Was that so hard?
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Kaiser-Machead
06/18/09

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I'd chance to say that if Palm was releasing the Pre at the same time that Apple was releasing the very first iPhone, popularity would've still shifted in the iPhone's favor.

Breaking News: Apple To Make First Smartphone

Holy shit!

Breaking News: Palm To Release Pre Smartphone

So fuckin' what?
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06/18/09

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running the risk of sounding like a fanboy, a big DUHHHHHH comes to mind. I mean come oh its the apple hypemachine. the beast with a billion tentacles, The JOBS done basically once anything APL is announced. + pre looks like a plastic toy that would get recalled for nearly killing the first paint eating middle america retard toddler to pick it up.

just sayins all.
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Kaiser-Machead
06/18/09

@oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...: It's funny cuz your name could also be a response to your comment.
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/18/09

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Is anyone really surprised? Other than geeks (Gizmodo readers), how many people even care about this?
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Kaiser-Machead
06/18/09

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Possible reasons

-Roving Machead caravans search for iPhones constantly whilst they roam in and out of hotspots

-Steve Jobs is Larry Page's "special friend"

-Over 50% of hits lead, directly or indirectly, to a Gizmodo article.

:P
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AriellaKodie
06/18/09

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I really wonder why Jason hates the Pre so much? You should probably seek help. All you post are pointless or backhanded comments about the Pre. I mean, comparing Google stats for a product that's been out for less than a year to another that's been out for years? Really?
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Jason Chen
06/18/09

@AriellaKodie: I actually like the Pre (did you see the review?), and there are no backhanded comments about it. Yes, thanks for repeating exactly what I said in the post about comparing stats on stuff that's two years old.
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EncNone
06/18/09

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i blame marketing.

even though the pre is better than the iphone, word has not been spread except by the users
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Kaiser-Machead
06/18/09

@EncNone: Subjective comment aside, the notion that only word-of-mouth from Pre users spread awareness of the Pre is flat-out false. Sprint's been advertising this thing everywhere, but basically ended up with the same effect as Creative when they plastered pictures of their Zen players all over the place; it just didn't fly.
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/18/09

@EncNone: I think a clarification of your point would be that marketing >> technology if two devices have the same basic functions. As smart as techy/engineer people are, the world is ruled by business/politician sleazebags whose primary skill is manipulating the population into believing what they want. Look at Steve (Ballmer) vs. Steve (Jobs) - both marketing guys, and yet Microsoft and Apple, two huge computer industry companies decide that they are the best people to be CEOs, not some engineer. At the end of the day, the best technology does not sell. The technology that people think is the best does.

(As a disclaimer, this is not meant to slander business/politician sleazebags, but merely to illustrate a point.)
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