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HA HA! TAKE THAT PALM PRE!!

middlekid3058

Jun 8, 2009, 3:01 PM
I think it is going to be funny watching PALM and their big EGO crash and burn!
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Sgt_Joker

Jun 8, 2009, 3:05 PM
yeah that's an impressive new iphone, very cool stuff...the pre is already old news and didn't do very well this weekend with only 60k units sold. the new iphone will sell that many in a few hours.
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sofa_king_good21

Jun 8, 2009, 3:14 PM
Isn't the Iphone for kids now? all I see with them now are middle and high school kids.
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Sgt_Joker

Jun 8, 2009, 3:40 PM
🙄
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chainmail311

Jun 9, 2009, 2:41 AM
Yes, let's judge a phone based on the kids that have them...

Kids are actually more tech savvy as time goes on. They probably know more about computers than your average 50 year old.

I have a video of myself playing a DOS game when I was 3 in 1986. I'm now telling my Dad what "shareware" (or, open source) to use in order to convert video to his new phone.

I know my kids are gonna laugh at my retardation when I tell them I used a keyboard for most of my life. And a mouse will seem very archaic.
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Versed

Jun 8, 2009, 8:38 PM
sofa_king_good21 said:
Isn't the Iphone for kids now? all I see with them now are middle and high school kids.


Many of the doc's I work with in the ER have iphones and the other common phone is BB's.
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Slammer

Jun 8, 2009, 4:24 PM
Sgt_Joker said:
yeah that's an impressive new iphone, very cool stuff...the pre is already old news and didn't do very well this weekend with only 60k units sold. the new iphone will sell that many in a few hours.


Considering that is all they made available at launch? Damn good. Sold out. This is a soft launch as opposed to the mass sales approach by Apple. I think this was a very smart move on both Sprint's and Palm's part.
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murmermer

Jun 8, 2009, 3:14 PM
🤣 in 6 months you're going to hear a conversation that goes like this

Guy 1: "What iPhone is that?"
Guy 2: "This isn't the iPhone THIS is the Palm Pre!"
Guy 1: "I've never heard of the Palm Pre."
Guy 2: "That's because the iPhone 3GS came out before anyone heard of the Pre"
Guy 1: "Do you like it"
Guy 2:"ehh, I would rather have the 3GS but I bought into the hype that everyone was making about the Pre"
Guy 1: "Isn't that what you did with the Blackberry Storm too?"
Guy 2:"Don't remind me"
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MarkCohen

Jun 8, 2009, 4:19 PM
Because the Pre hasn't been anxiously awaited for the past 6 months or anything...
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Versed

Jun 8, 2009, 8:39 PM
MarkCohen said:
Because the Pre hasn't been anxiously awaited for the past 6 months or anything...


It hasn't?
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VerizonRepLogan

Jun 8, 2009, 3:15 PM
quite an immature topic
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bluecoyote

Jun 8, 2009, 3:18 PM
Both are awesome devices. The Palm operates a little differently than the iPhone but it clearly was inspired by it and they made an excellent effort to do their take on it, as opposed to RIM or the Samsung Instinct which were just crappy knockoffs.

Palm doesn't need big sales and huge demands. They need to build a good product and get a steady stream of adopters which will consistently grow.
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HawkeyeOC

Jun 8, 2009, 8:48 PM
bluecoyote said:
Both are awesome devices. The Palm operates a little differently than the iPhone but it clearly was inspired by it and they made an excellent effort to do their take on it, as opposed to RIM or the Samsung Instinct which were just crappy knockoffs.

Palm doesn't need big sales and huge demands. They need to build a good product and get a steady stream of adopters which will consistently grow.


Well said, except the RIM and Samsung products were not meant to be knock offs

RIM especially has a totally different focus to their products
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Kayslay34

Jun 8, 2009, 3:20 PM
How, this is the most hype palm has had since the palm pilot.. they have sold out in almost all stores in just 2 days, just cause the iphone has a new version doesn't take away from the success of the pre sales.
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Farris917

Jun 8, 2009, 3:27 PM
selling out of 50k units doesn't show much. there were supply problems for almost all locations selling the pre this weekend.

if i own one of something and sell it then i'm sold out. so it doesn't have much weight unless its a very substantially amount in my opinion
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ronan_gt3

Jun 8, 2009, 3:37 PM
more units sold doesn't necessarily mean a better phone..
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Farris917

Jun 8, 2009, 3:38 PM
i never said that it did. all i'm saying is that simply saying something is sold out may or may not warrant its popularity and/or quality
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ronan_gt3

Jun 8, 2009, 3:40 PM
yes it could, many stores were sold out the minute their stores opened..
popularity that is..
quiality i think is okay, we need to wait a month or so to be able to tell..
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Farris917

Jun 8, 2009, 4:10 PM
i said it could show the popularity of a device.
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Decept.ICON

Jun 8, 2009, 5:16 PM
the same could be said about Iphone...
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chainmail311

Jun 9, 2009, 2:43 AM
Great statement: The local sprint store has a 3 week waiting list right now. That's probably a success for any phone.
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Versed

Jun 9, 2009, 6:53 PM
Of course its a success, and I'm glad for both Sprint and Palm. Said in many times, as well as others, the Pre is a damned nice phone, so is the iPhone. Choice is good, and its good for both devices. A failed Sprint would not be good for AT&T and other carriers. Palm in the Pre and HTC with the G1 does more to push development for the iphone and other phones then if they didn't exist and vice versa. You can toss other brands in this too.
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ronan_gt3

Jun 8, 2009, 3:44 PM
i don't think palm will "crash and burn" like what you're thinking right now..
they did a very good job with the pre and only time will tell which is the better device between the iphone 3gs and the pre, it won't be the number of sales that'll tell.. we should wait for reviews for comparisons between the 2 new phones!! can't wait for the upcoming reviews and comparisons between the phones!!!!
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HawkeyeOC

Jun 8, 2009, 8:45 PM
ronan_gt3 said:
i don't think palm will "crash and burn" like what you're thinking right now..
they did a very good job with the pre and only time will tell which is the better device between the iphone 3gs and the pre, it won't be the number of sales that'll tell.. we should wait for reviews for comparisons between the 2 new phones!! can't wait for the upcoming reviews and comparisons between the phones!!!!


Too much interest in the Pre for them to crash at this point. Even if Sprint pulls a bonehead move, The Pre or a phone like it would be out to other carriers when the short exclusive is up anyway 😁
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Versed

Jun 8, 2009, 8:47 PM
yes, in January. and maybe sooner for other WebOS phones.
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HawkeyeOC

Jun 8, 2009, 8:51 PM
Versed said:
yes, in January. and maybe sooner for other WebOS phones.


Thats what will save Palm in the long run. The Curve did this by being a good device available on all carriers.

I am not really a fan of exclusivity agreements from any carrier. Limits the phone 😁
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Versed

Jun 8, 2009, 11:34 PM
Exactly, and the more devices, the better it is, because they drive each other to make more features.
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MarkCohen

Jun 8, 2009, 4:22 PM
I'm sorry, are you seriously suggesting that Palm's ego is large in reference to Apple?

You must have missed that iPhone/Pre AT&T doc where they said that the iPhones work in more countries than currently exist, when the popular joke was that those nonexistant countries were actually Steve Jobs' head finally becoming autonomous.
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HawkeyeOC

Jun 8, 2009, 8:42 PM
middlekid3058 said:
I think it is going to be funny watching PALM and their big EGO crash and burn!


Palm pretty much did crash and burn. There was enough wreckage left to build the Pre though.

Big surprise to a Palm fan such as myself actually.
If it fails, then Palm does. If it succeeds, then Palm does.

Few companies are in that type of position. Most could absorb a loss if a product didn't make it.

Simple as that
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