Competition

I'm really looking forward to the Palm Pre. I have no intention of actually buying one but I think it will finally be a real competitor to the iPhone and may actually drive Apple to innovate faster.

Why don't I want a Pre? For the same reason I don't want a Blackberry, wretched interface design. Palm has a better chance of making their interface actually usable given their long standing experience, PalmOS was very intuitive and easy to use afterall. The real loser will be RIM because this will just go to further illustrate how bad they are at designing a user interface. Every time I touch a Blackberry I cringe...even the Storm's "touchscreen" interface is lightyears behind the iPhone or even Windows Mobile.

Let's face it everyone WANTS an iPhone. The only people that have Blackberrys have them because they are either too cheap to buy an iPhone or they HAVE to have the Blackberry because that's all their company will support. Sad but true.

The funny thing is that everyone talks about all the awesome things the Palm Pre is going to do that the iPhone doesn't. All of these things could be fixed in one simple software update that Apple has probably been sitting on for months now (I love the iPhone but still believe that Apple are a bunch of dicks). Of course if you have a "hacked" iphone you already have access to tethering, copy & paste and interface customization....just missing the Adobe Flash support. You can be sure that around the time of the Palm Pre launch Apple will drop an update that will have all of these things...leaving Palm to wonder why they bothered.