I don't know, I don't see the limited number of initial apps to be a huge issue for me (am grabbing a Pre the second it becomes available on the everything plus referral program).
I've played with the phone for a total of about 2 hours in Sprint stores at this point, and the core features of the phone are enough to make it a smart and useful purchase for me. Unlimited everything on the sprint plan, GPS nav, awesome calendar and sync features... that's a pretty good core system if you ask me.
If the phone were simply an operating system and a dialer, then I would see the urgency for 3rd party applications (sort of like Windows Mobile). If people just want to play a bunch of games on their phone, they should be looking at the iPhone or a handheld gaming system.
I think the Pre will succeed with people like me. I'm a huge PC gamer, but I don't need to be playing games every waking minute on every device I own. Plus I want an alternative to the iPhone plan that does the same things (and in some areas does it better), and costs much less to boot.
I don't know how many of "me" there are out there, but I suppose we'll find out when we see how many Pres Palm sells in the first year.
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I don't know, I don't see the limited number of initial apps to be a huge issue for me (am grabbing a Pre the second it becomes available on the everything plus referral program).
I've played with the phone for a total of about 2 hours in Sprint stores at this point, and the core features of the phone are enough to make it a smart and useful purchase for me. Unlimited everything on the sprint plan, GPS nav, awesome calendar and sync features... that's a pretty good core system if you ask me.
If the phone were simply an operating system and a dialer, then I would see the urgency for 3rd party applications (sort of like Windows Mobile). If people just want to play a bunch of games on their phone, they should be looking at the iPhone or a handheld gaming system.
I think the Pre will succeed with people like me. I'm a huge PC gamer, but I don't need to be playing games every waking minute on every device I own. Plus I want an alternative to the iPhone plan that does the same things (and in some areas does it better), and costs much less to boot.
I don't know how many of "me" there are out there, but I suppose we'll find out when we see how many Pres Palm sells in the first year.