Comments on: Palm’s Roger McNamee Wants to Know if You’re Still Using an iPhone?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:36:58 +0000

Wow, the Palm hate here is over the top and quite frankly, full of it. As an iPhone user and now a Pre user, a few comments.

Service Provider: Sprint has better prices, and in my area, the SF Bay Area, it's more reliable than AT&T ever was. Sprint used to really suck and I quit them years ago but they're pretty damn good now.

Multi-tasking turns out to be a HUGE boon for power users, easily switching between running apps is a breeze with the Pre and a timesaver.

So what if there are less apps now? Considering you don't need to know freaking Objective C to build an app, the devs will come to Web OS. And, quite frankly, as a business user, I don't give a flying cr@p about 99.9% of the apps for the iPhone anyways.

User interface, intuitiveness, hard keyboard, alert notificaitons, etc: This is all perosnal preference but I happen to think the Pre is just as good as the iPhone in every one of these areas.

So what if there were a few freaking buggy Pre to start. You Apple fanboys should hope for healthy competition (whichI thin Google and Palm will offer) as it will make the iPhone even better faster.

Some of you can't see the forest for the trees and remind me of the guy from an Onion News Network video who said: "I'll buy almost anything if its shiny and made by Apple". Some of you, just some of you, need to get your heads out of your collective @sses.

By: Darnel

Darnel — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:49:16 +0000

I never understood sprint, the palm pre is a great phone but they got stuck with a really bad company. I had a palm treo for a few years with a sprint an those were the worst years of costumer service ever. Been a happy iPhone user since sept 2007

By: jane

jane — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:30:24 +0000

i had a Palm many years ago. After switching to iPhone I ditched the Palm. Can’t imagine going back. Also ditched my Dell and went with Macs and I will never go back to PC’s…i can promise that!

By: usmc3104

usmc3104 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:01:00 +0000

Are you joking dude. Palm, are you guys still making cell phones. Oh yeah you did sell 500 or so of those extremely buggy Pre a while back. The iPhone ROCKS, and if you really think the iPhone is not being used, why are you trying so hard to compete with it and where on earth did you get the idea of a smartphone with a touch screen that is a iPhone wanna be?

By: William Murray

William Murray — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:48:04 +0000

I was a Palm fan-boy for a decade. They abandoned me, I did not leave them. I lost a few thousands of dollars on their stock.

I have bought all three iPhones on the first day of availability. The only time I even think about Palm is when someone asks a question or makes such a ridiculous statement.

I own AAPL at $12/share and sold a lot at $200-.

By: DubbDee

DubbDee — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:23:22 +0000

Sounds like a Joe Lieberman comment.

By: Neurobit

Neurobit — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:01:05 +0000

hahahaha…. I bought two Palm Pres to test drive for our company and returned them three weeks later. Guess what? I bought two new shiny iPhone 3Gs’…. Never going back!

By: cardfan

cardfan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:53:48 +0000

He meant the first iphone. And he didn’t necessarily mean they’d all switch to the Pre as many original iphone users obviously upgraded to the iphone 3GS.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:15:27 +0000

Wanted really bad to like the pre. Waited in line got the last 2 at best buy and both of them were defective returned both and both of those had defects! Not an apple gambit tried my best to stay away and now I’m happy I got the 3gs! Don’t care about the rumors about the battery after having the pre I’m impressed with any phone that runs for more than an hour without a recharge

By: Poop Smells Good

Poop Smells Good — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:29:03 +0000

A guy at my office has a Pre. He constantly complains about short battery life and some little things…….like accidentally calling 911 when he’s inputting the security code to unlock his phone.

He says he’s happy with the Pre and Sprint’s service but I think he secretly has buyer’s remorse. A lot of people will try to trick themselves into liking an expensive toy they bought even though it’s not as great as the hype made it out to be.