MacDailyNews readers far and wide have sent us an ad airing in Canada for beleaguered Palm’s derivative iPhone device that’s misnamed “Pre.” Beleaguered Palm should have called it “Post,” as it seems to follow everything Apple does with their iPhone like a brain-damaged puppy dog. The few things that beleaguered Palm does try to come up with on their own are laughable, for one example: An antique keyboard with mechanical buttons that slides out only in portrait mode, even though the device, following Apple iPhone’s lead, uses sensors to allow for automatic landscape mode. With no soft keyboard, beleaguered Palm’s ill-conceived device actually forces users to use a sideways keyboard or forgo landscape use when a keyboard is need altogether.
Anyway, here’s one of Apple’s iPhone commercials that debuted in January:
Direct link via YouTube here.
Now, here’s beleaguered Palm’s derivative “new” ad:
Direct link via YouTube here.
Note that beleaguered Palm doesn’t show off their device’s amazing ability to “type” in landscape mode.
And, it’s only from Bell because Bell couldn’t get the iPhone exclusive. Beleaguered Palm’s Pre is obviously the preeminent emblem of loser wireless carriers.
Beleaguered Palm has no shame to along with their no apps. They must also think their potential customers are stupid. Hapless and app-less, the company’s running on fumes and obviously quite desperate, as any firm with even an iota of class wouldn’t have copied another’s original work so closely in the first place, much less feel the need to stoop to copying even their TV commercials.
Exactly how much does beleaguered Palm get to steal before Apple takes legal action? Or is Apple simply content to just watch beleaguered Palm fail on their own?
[UPDATE: 11:45am EDT: If Bell had the ad made, then beleaguered Palm had to sign off on it (unless they're even more incompetent than we even can imagine), so everything above stands as written.]
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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