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02/10/2011, 03:14 AM
#802
 Originally Posted by millertime
I've been using a Pre for a year and a half. I expected to upgrade by at least this summer. Why do I care if it doesn't use WebOS 2.1 if I don't even use the device? Does anyone use a device longer than two years? I think in the smartphone world a device is obsolete by then.
I want HP to move the ball forward. If that means I can't get stacks, exhibition, and wow-voice dialing- on my Pre, is that really a big deal? I'm going to have a new phone anyway. These are minor additions anyway. The real deal is the core OS function.
If I recall correctly, didn't Apple cut off the first iphone from anymore updates? That phone was about 3 years old, right, when iOS4 was released? So the Palm Pre will be 2 years old and the Plus 1.5 years old? Not far behind Apple's schedule.
I buy a phone for what it does at the time. I expect that in 2 years the phone will behind the technology curve and unable to run the latest and greatest. I suggest everyone view their phones that way because that is the reality. We've gone from 65nm chipsets, to 45nm chipsets, and late next year we will have 28nm chipsets. These chipsets will offer 5x the processing speed of some phones being released today. Given that, it is obvious why sometimes you have to cut the cord on software updates.
I agree, mostly. The Pre+ is still much younger than the MK 1 iPhone was when it was cut off from updates, hell, so's the Pre(-)! It rankles; as a Pre+ owner I was hoping to get Flash... last year... or at least before I traded in my handset for the new hotness. Palm/HP have also demoed Flash on Pres previously, and HP lead customers to believe that 2.x (and all that comes with it) would be made available to current hardware. This was said in press releases, and poems, etc.. Now? Apparently "the coming months" means "we have no idea what we're doing here and will say anything to make investors and potential customers think we do"
I don't disagree with your statement about hardware obsolescence, and I've got a contract with my carrier that doesn't offer me a subsidized upgrade until the new hardware is out anyway, and I don't have the spare cash to throw at a full-price handset.
I'm angry at HP for lying and backtracking on what it told us, the existing Palm user base. It really does show that they don't care about their customers and that profit and shareholders are the only things they are beholden to. It makes HP look bad in the eyes of a RABID, VOCAL and TECHNICAL fan base, and that is Not Good. Image is everything man, and HP just shat on theirs.
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