The Palm Pre: iPhone Killer?

Why the new smart phone may be better at luring technophobes into the market than Apple or BlackBerry.

By Daniel Lyons | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Jun 4, 2009 | Updated: 3:47  p.m. ET Jun 4, 2009

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  • Posted By: Incubus67 @ 06/06/2009 12:19:12 AM

    Computerized God--it's the new religion

    Program the brain, not the heartbeat....

    Deliver us to evil, deny us of our faith

    Robotic hearts bleed poison on the world we populate

    Virtual existence with a superhuman mind

    The ultimate creation

    Destroyer of mankind

    Termination of our youth

    For we do not compute

    "Computer God"....Black Sabbath 1992

    You can stick them all where the sun don't shine....

  • Posted By: BUYBUYBUY!!! @ 06/05/2009 2:42:01 PM

    Well maybe you should check your fact cheeto, when you buy a company you buy the people, resources, capital, and oh ya the technology and patents to go along with it. Have you ever read an annual report! Get some common sense.

    • Posted By: hlgns763 @ 06/05/2009 5:16:22 PM

      dude... relax...

      logically... if we were to view this issue on a timeline, apple simply bought a company that had OBVIOUSLY and previously developed the software, apple didnt develop it. they BOUGHT IT OUT and put their name on it and threw said developed software into the shells of iphones. so no, they DIDNT develop it, they purchased it and made it seem like they developed it, and now of course with the technology available they can develop it FURTHER and advance it. thats what huge corporations do, buy out smaller companies with good ideas, then present them as their own. and everyone makes a pretty penny.

      i dont think you are the one to be lambasting another person for knowledge in business ethics or tactics my friend. relax. and stop calling people names for no reason.

      • Posted By: hlgns763 @ 06/05/2009 5:24:06 PM

        all im saying is give credit to the little guys that dream big and have good ideas.

        apple is huge and business savy, but they havent exactly come up with all those ideas on their own. steve jobs isnt in a lab thinking up touch screen tech, hes writing checks and buying peoples ideas. or hiring the brains to do the thinking, mostly people from fortune 500 tech companies.

        my friends dad was one of the engineers that helped develop the beta versions of broadband internet, along with touch screen handheld computers for automated warehouse inventory and other business applications. but you wouldnt see his name on anything or everyone praising him for developing the tech or getting a bunch of credit. why? some one wrote a big fat check to make him go away into retirement at the age of 40. and hes not complaining about it either, i wouldnt.

  • Posted By: CTDAD @ 06/05/2009 12:48:48 PM

    Being a slave to technology is not my take on life...iPhones, Blackberrys, etc...I guess we've become so important we all need to be accessible 7x24...and we wonder why Americans are so overworked....and despite all this technology, people still hold on to prehistoric stereotypes and views...how ironic...

    • Posted By: hlgns763 @ 06/05/2009 5:16:58 PM

      haha,, i think the same thing all the time...

      humans are funny creatures my friend....

  • Posted By: hlgns763 @ 06/05/2009 5:09:34 PM

    probablys buying one.... my blackberry has seen better days, i dont like the touch screen keyboard on the ihpones but love the touch screen for every other application/purpose. having a nice multitouch screen AND a full qwerty keyboard is essential for me....

    running a business from your phone sure puts the wear-and-tear on it.... hopefully it is as durable as it is attractive...

  • Posted By: thecheeto @ 06/05/2009 2:26:50 PM

    Maybe you should check your facts. Apple, (and the iPhone) did not "pioneer" multi-touch technology, it was around way before the iPhone. In fact, Apple did not even develop the multi-touch technology used in the iPhone, they bought a company who did develop it. I wish people would stop treating Apple like they are some sort of God. All they do is sell overpriced gadgets.

    • Posted By: BUYBUYBUY!!! @ 06/05/2009 2:39:19 PM

      I don't know if anyone has a sense of business in this posting(def. not thecheeto) but when you buy a company they become your company so if Apple bought the company who developed the multi-touch technology then yes they developed it you idiot. have you ever read an annual report from Apple?

  • Posted By: statgrad @ 06/05/2009 12:07:40 PM

    "made that sound women make when they like something. 'Hmmm,' she said. 'It's nice. I like it'"

    Yes, "I like it" is that sound women make when they like something. The writing in this article should be embarrassing.

  • Posted By: Solo500 @ 06/05/2009 11:02:37 AM

    Please let FSJ out of his cage for a week or two. It's not fair! This whole story, with all the players involved, begs for the FSJ treatment.

  • Posted By: Doublepops @ 06/05/2009 10:51:30 AM

    This article, like all the others I have read, misses the biggest feature difference of all--the network. There is a reason why Verizon's ad campaigns emphasize it's "Can you hear me now" network--because for most of the country it is the best. People like me have not bought iphones because (a) VZ doesn't have it and (b) the ATT data plan is too expensive for someone who does not have one today and really have a compelling need for one. If you live in a VZ landline area (NE and Mid Atlantic)mainly want a basic phone + pictures, Verizon's superior network based talk dial, stereo music, and a sync to your office calendar and are not a big texter and prefer to do your e-mail from your laptop, the Pre on VZ's higher coverage, higher bandwidth bandwidth CDMA network (assuming they will match Sprint's pricing) be a much better offering than the iPhone on ATT's spottier East coast GSM network.

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