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"This deal (...) gives HP all the things they need to go head-to-head with Apple." Except for the one thing that makes apple products special: Design.
by mixmax 17y ago
"This deal (...) gives HP all the things they need to go head-to-head with Apple."
Except for the one thing that makes apple products special: Design.
- sev 17y agoExcept for the one thing that makes apple products special: Steve Jobs
- jhancock 17y agoI've been using the Palm Pre for the last month after using an iPhone for more than a year. I feel the Pre is as polished from hardware to software as iPhone. They are two different animals, but webOS and the Pre are fine examples of good design.
- potatolicious 17y agoI've used the Pre (I have an iPhone) - it is incredibly solidly designed. Its main problems are twofold: - It's slow. Really slow. If they can get a 2-3x performance improvement overall throughout webOS, they can actually compete with Apple. So far it's just not snappy enough to be a pleasant experience. - The marketing sucked. Seriously, what the hell. It's almost as if they went out of the way to convince you to not buy this device.
- swannodette 17y agoIn the area of performance, going with V8 sounds like a smart move. It's now faster than Python 3k and Ruby 1.9 if the Computer Benchmarks Game is to be believed. I like my iPhone/iPad but it's high time Apple had some real competition.
- potatolicious 17y agoIt's really too bad that the software wasn't faster and more solid out of the gate - they had some key innovations that Apple still doesn't have: social media integration. Do I want my Facebook contacts in my address book? Hell yes. Would I like a dashboard with recent Facebook updates from my friends? Duh. Palm has an innovative head on its shoulders, I for one am glad they are in a position to have a deep pit of money with which to battle Apple.
- moron4hire 17y agoFacebook contacts in my address book and a performant OS, right now. It's called Android.
- newman314 17y agoHow long ago was this? Things have gotten a lot faster esp with recent releases. Plus if you overclock, it's actually faster than the 3GS on the JS benchmarks.
- potatolicious 17y ago> " faster than the 3GS on the JS benchmarks." That may be true - but is it faster than the 3GS on native apps benchmarks? Most of the iPhone's strength is not in its browser, it's how snappy the UI is on its variety of native apps.
- pkaler 17y agoExcept for a lot of other things, too: iTunes client, App Store with millions of credit card numbers in its database, MobileMe cloud service, a chip design firm in PA Semiconductor, 5% of Akamai, 7% of Disney, a soon to launch iAds, and a soon to launch Game Centre. People seem to forget that Apple owns a chunk of absolutely everything from one end to the other.
- Zev 17y agoMobileMe cloud service Palm's Synergy works better than MobileMe ever has (including its time back as .Mac). Its free, over the air and automatic. Handles calendars, address book and the like. And I've never had (or heard of) a horror story in which it synced and removed all the contacts on the device.
- moron4hire 17y agoApple has been milking the same, tired design cues for the last 10 years. The fact that people still think they have brilliant designers is a testament to the brilliance of their marketing team.
- philwelch 17y agoI think you're missing the distinction between design and fashion.
- mambodog 16y agoYeah, but they've gotten really good at copying that from Apple (HP Envy, HP Slate) so it might not be a problem.