At least when Apple pre-announced a phone, they had a price, a charging connector that already existed in the millions*, and a ship date.
Very bold move by Palm - but I think it will ultimately prove to be as foolish as letting their lead in PDAs peter out in the late 90s.
*Can someone please tell me if there's an optional wired charging connector at all, or if you'll have to find the magic wireless odd-shaped electricity god altar thingy every time your battery gets low?
Palm's new whatever might actually be interesting, exciting, revolutionary, but there's one small problem -- You can't actually buy one! Like, right now. They say sometime in the first half of 2009, as if they expect someone excited about a getting great new phone to wait six whole months. When Jobs announces, it's ready to roll. Is this so difficult to understand?
My problem with anything Palm makes is that most of it's pretty Mac unfriendly, even Mac openly hostile. Since i've been running Macs since 1988, this vexed me when i had a Palm Pilot.
All my early sexual fantasties revolved around Bono's performance at Red Rocks in 1983. Now? I'd rather give Rupert Murdoch a hummer than that sell-out.
04/22/09
Dueling press releases? Is that like "Dueling Banjos"?
Sigh. What is it with me this lifetime? Even for ma boo, Owen, i've got to drag things into the gutter.
01/09/09
01/09/09
Very bold move by Palm - but I think it will ultimately prove to be as foolish as letting their lead in PDAs peter out in the late 90s.
*Can someone please tell me if there's an optional wired charging connector at all, or if you'll have to find the magic wireless odd-shaped electricity god altar thingy every time your battery gets low?
01/09/09
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01/08/09
Time to do what everyone else did and just give up on VW.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
01/09/09
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01/08/09
But they won't telly about any of that at CES.
Wankers.
01/08/09
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01/08/09
Don't blame Pete, it was Kara Swisher.
01/09/09
12/27/08
Google the War Nerd versus Victor Davis Hanson. Now THAT is a nerdfight.
"Your cicadas will chirp from the ground." or,
"We will burn your f***ing orchards to the ground if you mouth off again."
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You can also buy more leather jackets, kooky cowboy hats, and $1000 sunglasses. Save Africa!
12/22/08
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12/22/08
rupert murdoch... hummer.... oh god.
12/22/08
12/22/08
that's good an well, just please clean the murdoch image from my scarred brain.
12/22/08