The Palm Pre stands no chance to compete against a cheaper iPhone 3G. And even less so against a much better featured but equally priced iPhone 3G S
The $200 Palm Pre and its 18 applications stand no chance against a $99 iPhone 3G with 50K+ applications and even less so against a souped up iPhone 3G S.
In announcing the newest iPhone at the company’s software developer conference – where pundits thought there would be no hardware news! – Apple further extended the gap with its competition, at least for another year.
It took 2-years for the first real competitor to the iPhone to show up a.k.a the Palm Pre; and it will probably take at least 2 more years for Palm to catch up on the software side, if ever.
Developers can’t go wrong with the iPhone
Actually, I think the game is over for Palm. Why would a developer bother? The users are on the iPhone, new business models (subscription, micro-payments) are now available.
Perhaps Android – which Apple mentioned during the keynote – might have a chance to grab enough market share and become a distant second, with its open source model.
But for Palm, RIM, Nokia/Symbian, they are relegated to be niche players in an mobile Web world dominated by iPhones.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
In a lot of cases, this would be true. But today, Apple managed to leapfrog its competition again. And Palm being the smallest of the major smartphone makers has lost its chance. My take.
You forgot one thing…AT&T’s coverage is not as good as Sprints in many areas. Older infrastructure. Where I live, I have happily given up my iPhone and AT&T for a Palm Pre and Sprint. I love the Palm Pre.
Why did Apple do the AT&T thing? Successful product, but biggest product-marketing mistake of the decade.
Would have liked to use the Iphone but due to AT&T screwing up my plan I stayed with sprint. Granted the Palm was as much as the apple but it works great for what I need. Best part is my Monthly family plan is half of what AT&T was. Sprint worked with me on a plan, AT&T gave me a plan, realized later it was incorrect jacked the price up another 90 bucks a month and said sorry for the inconvenience. I have heard this from allot of AT&T customers. Apple can squash the palm all they want but as long as they are with AT&T they will lose many customers.
Gosh, I remember being an iPhone early adopter and having to put up with pundits like you saying what a turd it is, and how there’s no way it was going to make it.
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