Palm Pre Bits for the Week
It’s time for my weekly summary of Palm Pre news and there didn’t seem to be much. That will hopefully change next due to the first bullet point on our roundup:
- Palm and Sprint are co-hosting an invite-only webcast on Thursday, March 12th. We’ll be there for the show and the Q&A expected to follow. I’m curious about the three differentiators that are exclusive to Sprint, which was mentioned in our invite.
- Is the Pre still on track for the first half of 2009? Nobody but Palm knows, however they’re on record this week saying yes. Well, if you believe that saying something on Twitter is “on record”, that is. ;) (PC Mag)
- A Palm investor is betting heavily that original iPhone owners will be using the Pre since the first wave of two-year Apple iPhone contracts ends on June 29. “Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later.” Umm…. I don’t know about that. (Bloomberg)
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RE: that Palm investor, if you factor out the guys who already upgraded to the iPhone 3G (I stood next to two when in line for my iPhone ticket), I suspect that group of people with expiring contracts will be quite small. I doubt it would amount to even half the first-week buyers.
And this assumes Apple does not continue their apparent annual release schedule. If people really do just buy the coolest product, does that mean Palm is screwed if Apple releases a new iPhone? The guy is double-bluffing and hoping history doesn’t repeat itself. That’s not very reassuring.