We don't know until consumers reach the UI, but it certainly looks the part and seems intuitive, so it's making all the right noises. In some ways, it seems lik

We don't know until consumers reach the UI, but it certainly looks the part and seems intuitive, so it's making all the right noises. In some ways, it seems like an improvement, particularly for power-users - the hidden 'dock' bar and the use of keyboard shortcuts, for example. As for games, I play them on my PC (I have a hundred games in Steam), but I don't play them on my phone, which suggests we agree that it's of secondary importance and people only get them when they're available. Perhaps "business" is the wrong term, but I meant that hte emphasis is on "professionals". Those people who buy Blackberry's, those who used to buy Palm products, who have particular need for features like contact sync, multiple calendars, and other similar features, rather than real-time features like games. I think it will be these users who will really feel the benefit from multitasking on their productivity, because, for example, being able to flip between an e-mail and a calendar would be extremely useful. I think my main point about applications makes sense. The point is there may be more applications on Platform X than Platform Y, but as long as there are no "killer apps" and both have thriving developer communities that's all that matters. I think my comparison with Blackberry and Nokia was perfectly apt, because that's the market Palm are actually entering. Palm are going to be releasing many phones on many networks on multiple price points based on the same operating system - the Pre is just the first of many. If you were to believe the hype, you'd imagine that Blackberry and Nokia don't matter, rather than selling the millions of smartphones they do, and that Palm couldn't potentially have huge success without selling their phones to a single iPhone customer. I think it's only fair to compare it to other manufacturers on many carriers, not Apple's self-enforced network limitations. I'd be very interesting in reading what you personally think Palm should be doing, because apparently a relatively small company building something that compares favourably to the market leaders in their (expanding) product area isn't good enough. I think the Pre is exactly the product they should be making rather than forgettable Windows Mobile handsets, and I think the fact we're actually having this discussion and the hype over the Pre shows that to true.