Comments on: This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, March 28th Edition, Wait-a-Thon

By: starlight81

starlight81 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:52:31 +0000

i sure could use $100 worth of music…..couldnt we all…hehe..

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:51:59 +0000

AnteL0Pe makes the kind of sense that does.

I mourn my Palm, but they abandoned the market, not the other way around. The sheepish mentality where consumers pay money to profess loyalty to companies which treat them like cr@p is... wait, that's Apple right?

Seriously, though, if Apple's next iPhone is a bomb and Palm's Nova is a killer, or (good help me!) WinMob 7 actually innovates, that'll be my next phone.

Loyalty should be to our own needs and what best meets them at the moment. This ain't marriage, it's gadgets.

By: AnteL0pe

AnteL0pe — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:35:33 +0000

Palm users were loyal until they got bent over one too many times by Palm. Seriously, since the 650 which Treo has been the killer, must-have, Palm phone? Ummmmm....

This is exactly why iPhone owners are so likely to have been Treo owners, Apple produced what Palm couldn't. A modern, simple, elegant, powerful smartphone/OS. This is what Treo users have been waiting for. Palm's solution was to essentially drop Palm OS (a simple, underpowered, inelegant OS) and go with WinMo (a powerful, inelegant, complicated OS). That decision was so telling and so inline with the series of utterly disappointing announcements and product releases Palm put forth since the 650.

By: DaffyHercules

DaffyHercules — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:50:41 +0000

Wow! I just heard about this and am glad to have the opportunity to try my hand at winning a $100 iTunes card.

By: BarracudaRon

BarracudaRon — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:18:03 +0000

Congratulations Dyvim! My first post for entry, Admin. does commenting “just a post to win” qualify as an entry, or must we post on-topic… just for future reference?

By: dbarnes43

dbarnes43 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:12:56 +0000

Just a post to win the prize

By: NPR_aficionado

NPR_aficionado — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:24:29 +0000

Congratulations! That is great for you! Hope you don’t have to wait as long to use the gift card on the SDK apps as all those waiting for the Treo 800.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:08:05 +0000

I love that video. What I wouldn't give, however, for a Zero Punctuation review...

(warning, expletives by the dozen...)

By: marcol

marcol — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:43:12 +0000

Thanks for the 'review'. It brought this to mind, which still makes me laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY

By: fhorn2k

fhorn2k — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:39:10 +0000

Palm Users are really loyal……I stuck with them for far too long waiting for new features to be released with every minor update. Long live the iPhone!!