I understand now why Palm called this phone the Pre.

Because this phone at time of launch was in 'Pre-alpha' stage. An inside joke kind of thing.

A product in pre-alpha stage is "usually not 'feature complete'. At this stage designers are still determining exactly what functionalities the product should and should not have."

I think it is the reality and the truth to some degree... and again I guess you can blame it on the fact that Palm was almost dead and if they didnt release, they never would.

The app store was far from Beta... and you can see it where the pieces are finally coming into place now... I would say we are in true Beta now with the App store.

I really dont know if this was the case and if they had to deal with this in Android but Palm really has made their users a bigger part of developing then they really should make paying customers/users. I would say that when 2nd gen comes out, Palm better give the early adopters a good deal in upgrading.

Again... maybe no choice. Maybe a lot of you guys on the forums are ok with it and wear the badge of "early adopters" proudly. But for the general consumer not a good idea and don't think they realize to what level they were going to be guinnea pigs.

Hope those owners survive it in good spirits to be loyal enough for gen 2 and beyond.