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I'm really impressed that Palm was able to create a product with the potential of the Pre, given the number of nails in Palm's coffin before this. With Rubenste
by mcav 17y ago
I'm really impressed that Palm was able to create a product with the potential of the Pre, given the number of nails in Palm's coffin before this. With Rubenstein at the helm (being a previous Apple guy), they just might pull this off. Not instantly -- the iPhone won't be dethroned now. But WebOS actually sounds like a promising operating system, and given a few years we might see real competition from WebOS as a platform. One phone won't do it, but over time this should bring good competition for Apple.
- stcredzero 17y agoGoogle should buy Palm and graft the UI part of WebOS onto Android, with the V8 Javascript interpreter running natively. Better yet, Google could have both Palm Pre and the Android phones. The point is to position Google as the search/infrastructure provider for the mobile internet. Having three brands deeply integrated with Google (iPhone, Pre, Android) will provide an even deeper market penetration.
- cdibona 17y agoFullily, the pre' os model would be very easy to support inside the browser on an android. Watch Dan Morrill's talk 'how can I code thee' when it hits youtube and you'll see how you could expose different internals to such a thing. And someone asks him this very question, and his answer was really interesting (that question might have been posed at the Fireside chat we did, too, so check that) It's worth saying that there doesn't need to be an acquisition of palm for us to work well together, you know? That said, I prefer the android approach to a mobile os. (but I work at google and help with android, so grain of salt...)