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10/30/09
Sprint isn't going away anytime soon, either, even though they've lost some marketshare. Sprint owns a hell of a lot of fiber and towers, not leases, owns. They are a backbone carrier from which others lease bandwidth.
People fetishize the shit out of their phones, or phones they wish they had, and don't pay attention to real-world specifications, behaviors, and costs.
Why would I say this? I worked for a platform-agnostic wireless software developer back in 2000, and the tech press, the popular press, and armchair experts (consumers) have been getting it wrong for a long time, as far as these types of death-knell pronouncements go.
/rant #palmpre
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I know the whole "but the iPhone has been out for two years" BS is played out, and really you have to look at the offerings right now, as they are marketed, but WebOS is nice. I love my Pre, I'm hoping Palm plays the card right on this one. #palmpre
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The Pre was exactly what I had expected and more. My wife now has one and feels the same way. We both tried out iPhones and the G1, I preferred the iPhone, but hated the G1 (the "chin" bar was too uncomfortable to type over). For me, it came down to the fact that work pays for a Sprint bill, and for her it was the hard keyboard, Sprint coverage (AT&T sucks here) and the cost. #palmpre
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11/02/09
Yes, media syncing is easy, that much I like about it. #palmpre
10/30/09
But it was a good article. I hope Palm does well, because it will add that much more competition. #palmpre
10/29/09
Droid is good? sure, but hey, if they can only make a f*king smartphone as large as a netbook, try puting it in your pocket first. duh. #palmpre
10/30/09
gizmodo is crazy
Yes but in an AWESOME way. Who approved this troll that said that "Gizmodo is crazy, that is your downfall right there"?
Phew. Guys, can we get a Demote button please? #palmpre
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While this might not compare with some of the points you raised above, I can guarantee you that the UI design is one of the firs things regular consumers will notice. #palmpre
10/29/09
Yeah, Google definitely isn't known for their UI. #palmpre
10/30/09
Use widgets on the iphone and see if it is buttery smooth...oh wait YOU CANT because you cannot multitask
Dont judge something before fully understanding it, even my g1 is as fast as any iphone with a few tweaks. So, I think everything you said is biased beyond belief
Go and enjoy your iphone #palmpre
10/30/09
Do you think the majority of consumers care about multitasking, let alone even consider it? Or do you think the more pleasing and polished looking interface design, fluid eye candy, and applications is what they care about?
I'd put my money on the latter. Nerds, tech blog fanboys, and maybe business users are the only ones who care about multitasking. Despite that, iPhone is still number one in consumer choice among business users. You do understand that you techblog fanboys only make up a small percentage of the consumer market right?
11/04/09
You done sucking on Job's dick yet?
1) "apple ALLOWS only safari, ipod, phone, and mail"
You killed it when I read allows, because apple will only ever give what they think is best. But, moreover about the multitasking on the iphone...the little numbers on emails, messages, and etc, are the cheapest excuses for widgets i have ever seen on a phone. To me that is not multitasking, thats bitchtasking. I run about 8 or 9 apps at once most of the day on my rooted g1 and its faster than any iphone. You say jailbroken iphones are great at multitasking....WRONG, i have plenty of friends who have jailbroken their iphones and for 1 it still doesnt let you multitask legitimately, and 2 the phone would restart when they tried to force it to run for example a game and music. So dont just go make up shit to make a point
2) More polished design you say? Lets see you customize ANYTHING besides the lockscreen wallpaper on a damn iphone, hows that for your illogical "polish" argument
3)THE ONLY REASON WHY the iphone is still #1 IS BC OF PPL LIKE YOU!...who refuse to think that anything can compare to the now average iphone that you are paying 100 bucks a month for! The only thing keeping apple on top is HYPE....which really pisses me off because it doesnt give any other companies a chance, even tho other companies phones are great. which is whats going on w/android...
So you know what FUCK APPLE... #palmpre
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ps
life's a garden -- dig it. #palmpreitunes
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10/29/09
Nokia needs a good OS, Palm needs good hardware, it's a match made in heaven.
Though no one will ever see this comment. I wonder why I even post here anymore... #palmpre
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In case we forget, Palm was already on the verge of imminent death before the iPhone came out - mostly out of some of the most amazing bad decisions ever to be seen in a company.
It biggest rivals were Handspring and the Visor - which later became the Palm Treo when the Palm and Handspring merged.
Palm kept diddling and resisting improvements to PalmOS while companies like Sony stepped in and did it for them.
Meanwhile, Windows Mobile was perched waiting for Palm to screw up, which they did, and essentially took over the entire market.
Then there was that whole - 'we'll spin off the OS to its own company which we'll then sell to a competitor while promising a new upgrade" which of course, never showed up - thing.
Palm mostly held on because the Treo was one of the first integrated phone/PDAs out there.. but RIM and WM totally creamed them.
Most people were amazed there was enough left for Palm to muster up the Pre. #palmpre
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I'll keep my drag-n-drop, thank you very much.
10/29/09
why does a dog lick its balls? #palmpreitunes