Apple Announces the iPhone 3GS
HA HA! TAKE THAT PALM PRE!!
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.
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.
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.
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"
MarkCohen said:
Because the Pre hasn't been anxiously awaited for the past 6 months or anything...
It hasn't?
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.
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
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
popularity that is..
quiality i think is okay, we need to wait a month or so to be able to tell..
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!!!!
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 😁
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 😁
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.
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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