Buy this book: Chris Ziegler's 'Palm Pre for Dummies'!
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Oct 13th 2009 7:03PM
posted Oct 13th 2009 7:03PM
posted Oct 13th 2009 7:03PM
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Seriously, anyone on this site right now who owns a pre knew everything about the phone 2 months before it was released.
All Palm Pre owners are dummies. I'm only saying... that's what they're implying, not me.
Only an idiot would buy this book. Does the Pre not come with a manual? Are Pre forums shutting down preventing the answering of the occasional questions owners may have?
I've never even seen the phone and I'm sure I could help better than their tech support.
"-Multitask with more than one app open at a time"
as opposed to Multitasking with only one app open at a time?
Maybe Chris Ziegler should buy this book: "Comment System for Dummies"
Personally I'd enjoy reading a book of humerous comments in reply to some of the articles posted :) That's almost as good as the article itself!
Also, congrats on being published, Chris
i think ziegler should put more effort into correcting his blog posts before he starts writing books.
Ouch. Do you have a specific post you'd like me to look into?
Ohhh snap!!! Show your face JJ ! We need you to explain your statement. Show us sources and references of the mistake.
Why did Joshua post this? To reduce the perception of conflict of interest?
Do people need to learn how to "multi-task with more than one app open at a time"? Isn't that inherent?
Downranked because I don't believe his journalism is in question here. Most of us wouldn't be reading this blog if it were.
Is it appropriate for a professional technology blog to hawk the wares of their writers? Perhaps... perhaps not.
I think at some point Engadget should consider itself a professional publication, whether it likes to or not, and then abide by a code of journalistic integrity. I could be off here, but this and other instance of 'buy our writer's book' hits me as weird. It'd be like a journo from Wired writing an article for their site saying, "buy my new bluetooth embedded Sham-wow!".
But like I said, I could be off on this...
F to the raggle
All kidding aside, though -- and I ask because I see JJ's comment is getting upranked -- can I get some examples of things I need to correct? I do take this job very personally, believe it or not, and I care deeply about the quality of the content on this site. Not trying to be a jerk here.
I think Ziegler should put more effort into finding a new avatar pic, being that old internet meme is played out (and tell me how you do it since I have been trying to set a pic for months without success)
Anyway, congrats Chris. As someone who has written a few computer books, you will never forget that first time you walk into a B&N or Borders and see yours on the shelf.
NohOne: Nonsense, the combo dramatic chipmunk / red question mark meme hasn't even yet begun! :)
@XChrisX
I come here for links, as journalism here is seldom present. I could do very well without the sarcastic opinionated crap they are so fond of writing and have the pretty rare thing that is "reporting of facts" instead.
@giuliop You know what they say about opinions...You can't get butt hurt just because you don't always agree with what is being written here.
What the heck is the "code of journalistic integrity"?
The next time I see an honest writer on a major news network will be the first. Every journalist has an agenda and many are for profit. I don't see anything wrong with Engadget promoting Chris' work.
@ Chris. This is the internet. We hate on everyone equally, even those providing us with something to do all day at work as well as writing books we can recommend to friends/family to get them off our backs every 5 minutes about new technology.
JJ got upranked because it was hilarious. I personally don't read the byline very often except when I have a major problem with the article and I don't know you. So that's good, I think? LOL
I don't know why he was upranked, Zeigler but I personally don't mind your articles. Nilay Patel is a different story.
I think it's funny (and great, too) that Zeigler actually reads the comments section and responds to us lowly commenters. It would suck if Engadget's writers never checked out what's going on in the 'pit'
Congrats Chris on your hard work.
i don't keep track of which editors make spelling/grammar mistakes in their articles, but it's pretty well known that errors in the posts are not infrequent. this sentence from the recent LHC article make my head hurt pretty bad:
"proposed an unlikely explanation as why the LHC and the Superconducting Supercollider before it seem to be particularly accident prone."
WOW.
Hmmm...I believe I remember "Josh" saying that Engadget employees weren't allowed to own stock in any companies they wrote about - or something similar.
But they're allowed to make money off those same companies in OTHER ways?
Hmmm...
Whoever that owns a Palm Pre is a dummy
Whoever that makes idiot remarks is a dummy.
Whoever that says that in a weird and unnecessary way is a dummy.
Agreed.
I've had the 'privilege' of playing with one. The apps are weak, the keyboard sucks, the screen is small, the gestures don't always work, if feels cheap, has sharp edges (we used a demo model to open a box at our store), and the UI just doesn't flow as well as they make it seem.
Sure, it can multitask. But it's really not doing much with it... and probably never will, no matter how much they want to be Apple (even going so far to make their USB key look like an iPod, despite being scolded by the USB IF).
@greg
Perhaps you missed Adobe's recent demonstration of the Pre running 3 flash applets at once?
Whoever gets regularly sucked by a baby as a nipple/bottle substitute is a dummy.
Doesn't the phone come with something like this? WOW WTF!
Haha. Did my Pre come with a manual? I'm too much of a dummy to know. I better get this new book. I've had my phone for 4 months now and I haven't figured out how to make a call yet.
I'll be returning my Pre for a Hero until Palm learns how to build better hardware.
*Spoiler*
The iPhone did it, in the kitchen, with the charger cable
Now we know what killed cogent commenting at Engadget.
Thanks.
Did he also write the "sex for dummies"? I'd read that ;)
No, but the Engadget team have been working in their spare time on "Sex with Dummies".
so you don't know how to make a fist??
Jim,
The book is titled, Sex with Robots from Korea that Play Soccer for Dummies.
cut your fingernails chris
Not my hand!
How do you know those are Chris's nails? Do you fail to observe the French Tips?
lol. Vote for funniest observation about this article/advertisement/cheap plug picture.
Geez guys c'mon.. that is obviously Josh Topolsky's hand.
Is the photo trying to imply that Pre owners are also apple owners?
Did he also write the "sex for dummies"? I'd read that ;)
That book was written by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer... Your joke is not working .