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02/18/2009, 10:38 AM
#88
 Originally Posted by Captweez
I would bet a paycheck on the fact the next iPhone will have a version with 32 gb on board.
Your right, maybe they should take their sweet time, because Palm's phone is SOOO miraculous that nobody, not even Apple with it's gagillion dollar budget, could possibly replicate its features EVER. There will never be another phone that offers multitasking.
Of course, iPhone will move up to 32GB on board. And? It will always be dominant in onboard memory over the rest the market. Equaling them is not going to be a differentiator for Palm. You see anybody ecstatic about the Pre media player having Cover Flow? People are crazy about the features of Pre that DON'T have much to do with the iPhone at all (e.g. cards, synergy, hardware keyboard instead of a competing soft keyboard). That's what Palm has emphasized and that is what is going to keep them alive in the marketplace past the next several iPhone iterations.
There are already phones that offer multitasking. There are not phones that offer it as simply and elegantly as the Pre does. Just as there had been phones that would play MP3s from SD cards, but none that had the simplicity and elegance of the iPod app on the iPhone and its abundant onboard storage. It's not what you do, but the way that you do it. Apple cannot do multitasking the way Palm does.
You mentioned those "thousands and thousands of apps" that might need editing. What about the fact the phone has thousands of apps?
To me, it's meaningless. So does Symbian. So does WinMo. So does Palm OS. Apple has the online and onphone store that makes it easy, but pretty much everyone is copying that move in the next 6-12 months, so then what?
I'm not saying the next iPhone will kill the Pre. It might even be an inferior phone, but in the position that Palm and Sprint are in, they can't gamble that every phone manufacturer will sit idle.
I guess I find it bizarre that people think Palm and Sprint are "sitting idle" with the Pre. In addition to trying to get it to market as quick as possible, they're everywhere with this device and constantly updating the Palm.com site with new Pre content. They're unofficially supporting the PreCamps going on, giving impromptu demos to industry insiders and tastemakers, and lining up partnership after partnership (see the Google Maps thread here today) that will sustain them beyond the lifespan of one phone model. That's waiting around?
Additionally, they've come up with an OS and featureset that not only allows them to compete with today's handsets, but puts them into the future and ahead of the pack when it comes to productivity and usability. That they want to spend a wee bit of time tweaking it before bringing it to market is understandable. The greater the buzz and premiere your phone starts with, the greater the fall if you come to market with show-stopping bugs.
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