Why I bought a Palm Prē and not an iPhone- all about feelings...

[igobytony]

Originally Posted by qst4

It was interesting how you noted there was a distinction between Mac users and iphone users. I had not looked at it from that perspective.

I will pretty much always be a Mac user for the same reason I hope to always be a WebOS user: they just work, and they work in a way that makes sense. With my Mac, if I didn't know how to do something, I would just try the way I thought it should work and I was usually right. Same with WebOS.

As sure as I am that I will never "be a PC", I am equally -if not more- certain that I will never be an "iClone".

[skilletsauce]

Originally Posted by AlexHergensheimer

yes, we should.
but as a contrarian, I can't have what other people have. if the Pre becomes the most popular phone, I'll get something else. I hated The Dark Knight, btw.

Did you really and truly hate the Dark Knight? or the fact that it was so popular?

[netwrkr9]

Yeah, the Palm Pre is cool phone, luv the UI and muti-tasking and all of that, but another thing I really like about owning one is that you are in a exclusive club. You all have seen this, you go into a crowed area and all of the iclones have their iphones, they all look alike and talk alike, really cracks me up.

[AlexHergensheimer]

Originally Posted by skilletsauce

Did you really and truly hate the Dark Knight? or the fact that it was so popular?

i merely didn't like it at the time; lots of moral inconsistencies ("spying on innocent people is wrong... but you can do it this one time, bruce") and silly plots like "i'm going to tape a cell phone to the wall of a boat and tell people there is a bomb on it," confusing motivations (did batman choose to save person x over person y from the explosion or was it a mistake?) and a badly structured third act. but after the world went nuts for dark knight, i decided i hated it. LONG LIVE THE PRE!!!!

[Voodoo22]

Great article and thread! Taught this 'PC' some history too.


Palm Pilot Pro, Treo 700w, Pre+ soon.

[kanesis]

WOW didnt know alot about what you posted until i read it. Welcome to the darkside luke

[dbmgreen]

Originally Posted by qst4

It was interesting how you noted there was a distinction between Mac users and iphone users. I had not looked at it from that perspective.

I too have wondered about this phenomenon? I wonder what the business / marketing research types would have to say about this.

Personally, although I'm a mac user, I instantly judge (terrible I know) iPhone users as generally not very tech savvy, not capable of setting up your average smart phone. Thats not a bad thing cause thats apples market. But it's also why the iPhone is so revered, all of a sudden there was a hand held device that was just as capable as my 6 year old treo 270, but just a whole lot easier to set up, so really any hillbilly could use it. :-)

[olidie]

Great read. I choose the Pre because I know it offer the best user experience and WebOS is the best Mobile OS out there by a long shot. Thanks.

[tarirene]

Originally Posted by dbmgreen

Personally, although I'm a mac user, I instantly judge (terrible I know) iPhone users as generally not very tech savvy, not capable of setting up your average smart phone. Thats not a bad thing cause thats apples market. But it's also why the iPhone is so revered, all of a sudden there was a hand held device that was just as capable as my 6 year old treo 270, but just a whole lot easier to set up, so really any hillbilly could use it. :-)

LOL... you might be on to something... my heavily pro-mac friend actually brags about his ignorance of what I'm doing when he sees me working in putty to mess around with my pre. That really baffled me.

[intellidryad]

I got the Pre for exactly the same reason

In the morning of launch day, I compared it with my Palm OS Clie, the Pre basically faired worse then a flip phone on many areas, and in terms of functionality, could not hold a candle to the good old Palm OS. Yet there's this exciting feeling that it's a growing platform, the underdog. We are adrenaline chasers who like the feel of being the odd people in the forefront. I guess that feeling is also why Rubinstein left Apple for Palm, he is a startup guy. So with the excitement building inside, I went again in the afternoon and bought the oh-so-unfunctional Pre, just for the excitement. And I am glad I did, it grew on me and is catching up on Palm OS, on track to pass it and rocket into the functionality of netbooks.

[tarirene]

I would love to disagree with you re: worse than a flip phone, but remembering how laggy and virtually unusable the dialer used to be... and how many people I hung up on and calls I couldn't answer... yeah, it wasn't actually a functional phone at launch.

[tarirene]

I would love to disagree with you re: worse than a flip phone, but remembering how laggy and virtually unusable the dialer used to be... and how many people I hung up on and calls I couldn't answer... yeah, it wasn't actually a functional phone at launch.