{"id":501,"date":"2009-01-10T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T22:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=501"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:47:03","slug":"palm-pre-and-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Palm Pre and the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The CES reveal of the new Palm Pre certainly was compelling. Apparently, the markets thought so too, as Palm&#8217;s stock went up a something like 35% over the course of the day (oh those <em>damn<\/em> insider trading laws).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pre.jpg 323w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pre-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In watching the Pre being demo&#8217;ed, it was clear that Palm&#8217;s designers had learned from Apple how to build a compelling UI for a phone, and if anything, they had taken the concepts even further than Apple had. All I can say is, if they can just avoid the brain-dead ways that they have failed in the past, Palm will have provided Apple with it&#8217;s first real competitor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, delivering on the promise will be <em>hard<\/em>; early on in the CES presentation, Ed Colligan made a point of saying &#8220;We only do mobile&#8221; like this was some kind of evidence that they knew what they were doing. Bah! The only reason they needed to even be <em>thinking<\/em> about the Pre was because Apple, who absolutely did <em>not<\/em> start out as a mobile company, showed them what people actually want in a modern phone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time will tell. With a hardware keyboard, a fast processor, a removable battery, a better camera and A2DP bluetooth audio, the Pre&#8217;s <em>hardware<\/em> is up to snuff. If they can match that with a flawless rollout and buy-in from the developer community then it looks like they may actually have a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CES reveal of the new Palm Pre certainly was compelling. Apparently, the markets thought so too, as Palm&#8217;s stock went up a something like 35% over the course of the day (oh those damn insider trading laws). In watching the Pre being demo&#8217;ed, it was clear that Palm&#8217;s designers had learned from Apple how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[74,102],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-iphone","tag-palm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}