Their product deserves better than what they have got. Seriously speaking, Verizon and Palm both dropped the ball on their advertisements and we as consumers risk loosing one of the best OSs on the market. It has become very obvious that Palm might not have the resources to develop both hardware and software at a pace which can keep up with competition. It really needs to think about licensing out their OS like Microsoft. It should also really think about going to developing nations like China, Brazil and India and try to exploit those markets as those markets arent fully developed and they can get at least a mindshare of the average consumer at lower budgets. They have and can do well in both departments but I am afraid not a pace of the competition. I think Apple really cut deep into the flesh when they sold the 8GB iPhone at 99$.
@arnavdesai Not just developing markets, bring it to Japan too please. By limiting the countries to mostly Roman alphabet countries, Palm is reducing it's potential to profit. I understand East Asian character sets are about 300 times more complicated to do than Roman ones but most of the work needed to be done to support them has already been done on Linux. They're loosing money by not adding them.
@DDragon, that requires a lot of work on their part, each new language requires resources in the country and lots of development hours. Nothing wrong with the language it's just too verbose for such a small company like Palm to spend time on.
Leave it up to Windows Phone 7 Series to bring the next operating system to these Asia pacific markets. It's going to be interesting the language base Microsoft includes at least then you know Japan is a given.
@cherryboom I traded my iPhone for the Pre when it came out and have never looked back. I am SO glad I did. it's just better as a device all around. apps or no.
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Their product deserves better than what they have got. Seriously speaking, Verizon and Palm both dropped the ball on their advertisements and we as consumers risk loosing one of the best OSs on the market.
It has become very obvious that Palm might not have the resources to develop both hardware and software at a pace which can keep up with competition. It really needs to think about licensing out their OS like Microsoft. It should also really think about going to developing nations like China, Brazil and India and try to exploit those markets as those markets arent fully developed and they can get at least a mindshare of the average consumer at lower budgets.
They have and can do well in both departments but I am afraid not a pace of the competition. I think Apple really cut deep into the flesh when they sold the 8GB iPhone at 99$.
@arnavdesai
Not just developing markets, bring it to Japan too please. By limiting the countries to mostly Roman alphabet countries, Palm is reducing it's potential to profit. I understand East Asian character sets are about 300 times more complicated to do than Roman ones but most of the work needed to be done to support them has already been done on Linux. They're loosing money by not adding them.
@DDragon, that requires a lot of work on their part, each new language requires resources in the country and lots of development hours. Nothing wrong with the language it's just too verbose for such a small company like Palm to spend time on.
Leave it up to Windows Phone 7 Series to bring the next operating system to these Asia pacific markets. It's going to be interesting the language base Microsoft includes at least then you know Japan is a given.
@cherryboom I traded my iPhone for the Pre when it came out and have never looked back. I am SO glad I did. it's just better as a device all around. apps or no.
@DDragon
"East Asian character sets are about 300 times more complicated"
Actually Japanese can be typed satisfactorily from a 0-9 numpad, so much less pressure to have a phone with a keyboard.