At the end of the day, neither company has much to gain from filing suit; more importantly, it gets in the way of business. And since the two products are competing for discreet buyers in the smartphone sector (iPhone for consumers; the Pre for corporate customers), they'll just sit down and hammer out a deal. Or just leave well enough alone and say nothing else about the possible infringements.
I tend to agree with Sevenmack. The Pre really doesn't seem to be directly going after the PMP market at all. The media functionality of the Pre seems pretty basic in comparison to the iPod/iPhone. Meanwhile they've gone more directly for the market interested in getting messaging/business done, but in an iPhone-esque way. By doing this Palm is leaving the die-hard fans of the iClique alone. That slight differentiation was a very fair concession on behalf of Palm, I think, and hopefully enough to stay the hand of Apple. If this thing were coming out of the gate as a multimedia beast I imagine Apple would be much more motivated to launch into battle.
All that's to say Palm stated they were going for the fence-sitters waiting for something between the iPhone and BlackBerry, and I think they succeeded tremendously by not carving much marketshare from those two competitors.
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At the end of the day, neither company has much to gain from filing suit; more importantly, it gets in the way of business. And since the two products are competing for discreet buyers in the smartphone sector (iPhone for consumers; the Pre for corporate customers), they'll just sit down and hammer out a deal. Or just leave well enough alone and say nothing else about the possible infringements.
I'm a consumer and I want a Pre. Lots of consumers who remember the last Palm handset they owned fondly want a pre.
I tend to agree with Sevenmack. The Pre really doesn't seem to be directly going after the PMP market at all. The media functionality of the Pre seems pretty basic in comparison to the iPod/iPhone. Meanwhile they've gone more directly for the market interested in getting messaging/business done, but in an iPhone-esque way. By doing this Palm is leaving the die-hard fans of the iClique alone. That slight differentiation was a very fair concession on behalf of Palm, I think, and hopefully enough to stay the hand of Apple. If this thing were coming out of the gate as a multimedia beast I imagine Apple would be much more motivated to launch into battle.
All that's to say Palm stated they were going for the fence-sitters waiting for something between the iPhone and BlackBerry, and I think they succeeded tremendously by not carving much marketshare from those two competitors.