the problem with the pre was a few fold 1) it was ahead of its time in terms of writing apps in javascript and having them run in a web browser context. The h

the problem with the pre was a few fold 1) it was ahead of its time in terms of writing apps in javascript and having them run in a web browser context. The hardware was not up for it and the programming environment wasn't up for it (i.e. no webasm and the like) 2) no ability at the start to write apps in native code. This severely limited one's ability to have graphical games. people use their phones to casually game, and if those games don't exist, the phones wont sell. 3) as forward thinking as it was, they missed some things. It was just too small physically for what it was supposed to be. I was a big believer in it, but it was just too small for my fingers to use effectively to type and the like. It would have been interesting to see what a pre in a modern size phone form factor would have been like. with all that said, I have fond memories of it, especially being part of the group of people the jailbroke (and I made it happen without even having physical access to one at the time. thanks god for its debian (or really ipkg) roots, made it easy to reverse engineer and get code onto it. The touchpad, on the other hand, was way ahead of its time. I still used mine till about a year ago when it finally kicked the bucket.