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I would love to know precisely how Apple is "5 years [or more] ahead of the curve"? I mean, sure, the iPhone has a nice interface (to an extent), but it's lacking functionality that's available in a number of other platforms. 3.0 just gets it caught up with some, and not all, of that functionality.
It has a nice app store, but of course not really more applications--both Palm OS and Windows Mobile have as many, and I'd wager that they both have a better selection of real applications compared to the iPhone. Has anyone seen a fart app for either the Palm or WM, let alone 75?
Certainly, the iPhone is a tremendous success, but that can't really be measured chronologically in such a way. I don't think it's very difficult to conceive at all that someone could release a device that could catch up with and pass the iPhone. I'm not sure that it will be Palm with the Pre, as much as I'd like to see it, only because Palm doesn't have the financial strength. Maybe after a year with a very successful Pre and a stock price over $12 they could do so with the Pre 2 or somesuch.
Heck, I think even Microsoft could do it with Windows Mobile 7. Windows 7 stands poised, in my opinion, to steal back whatever little thunder OS X has stolen because of the Vista debacle. I predict that Windows will be back over 90% market share, and OS X back under 7%, in a few years. So, I believe that Microsoft is entirely capable of producing a competitive product that leverages its strength in the enterprise.
Boy, I can't stand Apple fans. I like my MacBook Pro fine, I guess, but I hate researching things about it. So many Apple fans are just like this, and Leftist to boot. A pox on the lot of them.
Let's go, Palm. Release the Pre, will you, so we can all buy it and kick some Apple ****.
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