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 Originally Posted by mikah912
So Sprint is now obligated to announce the devices they won't be carrying? Seems kinda unrealistic.
I laugh when people get angry at Sprint for not offering the Plus or Pre 2 and threaten to leave for Verizon or wherever. Here's a carrier that took a chance on WebOS, supported it for longer than pretty much any smartphone is supported these days (17 months before EOL), got almost all of the updates to users before other carriers, and offered the best working GPS for free on the best plans....but because they wouldn't keep throw away precious cash buying refreshed devices when it took them months to sell off existing stock, they're the dirty rotten villains of this saga.
Meanwhile, the "definitive answers" regarding the Palm Pre 2 in America and WebOS 2.0 updates offered by Palm are "coming soon" and "in the coming months" respectively. Awesome.
I understand what your saying, and it does seem that way that people are blaming sprint for not (to this point) carring a update to the Palm Pre. Me personally feel that if how Sprint feels is that they were at the short end of the stick with carring the original pre then fine. Though of course nobody knows exact numbers the Sprint Pre brought in, returns, refurbs, and if it benifited the company or not. My thing is to everyone really, that we cant expect a carrier to announce anything, if they don't feel they should have to. So to me regardless if they plan on launching a new device anytime soon, its up to them to let us know so. All we can do is speculate on how they feel about the Pre (and no not that statement the VP made, because again it was nothing dergatory just stating it didnt do as well as hoped), if they plan on providing Webos devices still etc. Though we can atleast see they still plan on if you want to speculate. They ended the Pre of course after what 17 months was it, but so did Verizon and they are going to carry the pre 2. They still carry the pixi, and usually when a company ends a life of a OS they plan to replace it in the near future, especially if they still are carring a sibling of it in the pixi. Also if you think Sprint lost money with the pre (as know one knows def numbers as stated) I wounder how much money Verizon lost. Though Verizon still plans on carring the Pre 2, and right now is the #1 carrier in the US, and is home of Android, and soon to be the Iphone. So its ok to speculate, but to give defenites on why Sprint or any other carrier is not going to carry a device is wrong, unless supported by facts IMO.
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