“He points to contacts within the cell industry and supply chain that suggest Verizon will carry one or more of Palm’s webOS phones, such as the Pre or Pixi, sometime in 2010,” Electronista reports. “Sales of both the Motorola Droid and HTC’s Droid Eris have purportedly been ‘somewhat disappointing’ and may lead to Verizon using Palm to bolster its smartphone catalog.”
Electronista reports, “Adoption of the smartphones could happen as early as the first half of the year as Sprint’s exclusive isn’t expected to last past 2009.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “Hold the mediocre also-ran, we’ll have some third-rate instead” is not a winning strategy. This is like a auto dealership dropping Pontiac for Oldsmobile. Verizon’s between a Droid and a Pre place. In other words, they’re up the creek without an iPhone. They need to stop fooling around with misleading ads and build a network that actually allows users to simultaneously talk and surf the web/email (imagine that!), beg Steve Jobs for an iPhone deal, and start acting like the dumb pipe they are.
They actually think that the Pre, which is a massive failure in its own right is going to work? ahahahaha
Is it me, or does it feel like every phone company now is trying to “stunt cast” their phones? They’d be better served by providing more value — beat AT&T;’s data plan by $5/month and you’ll get customers.
Best MDN take of the year?
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Hey – don’t make fun of Pontiac!!
69 Pontiac GTO was my first car. Loved that goat. Sold it in 1981 for $700. Brilliant agreed?
Hey! Hold on just big fat minute!
I’ll have you know that my ’88 Olds Toronado was the best car I’ve ever owned, by a long shot. I wish I still had it… I’d fix it up and make it my primary mover.
I know that both Pre and Droid are not even close to iPhone, but I think Verizon ads are not misleading. Everywhere, my iphone doesn’t work, my girlfriend’s LG chocolate works. And this has happened at least few times.
@Apologist
Yep, $5 a month and I am out of here. That is all it takes to get us iPhone folks to get a physical keyboard pre. Hell, $10 and we will give up cell phone entirely and use pay phones. Yeah 5 bucks in the pocket instead of a mini computer. Makes a guy think.
Geez! You people are old geezers! I thought Macs only appeal to the young and hip.
Eric,
don’t you feel a little awkward trotting out stereotypes from 1996?
Nope, 1969 Olds 442, God I loved that car.
Dealing with Palm?
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/willie-and-hand-jive/id78313?i=78305
drackmere
I had a ’69 Delta 88 w/455 back in high school.
Crazy fast (and a comfy back seat)
God I loved (in) that car….
@ Eric24601
Ya, I remember when I thought people in their 40’s was old too. Until you get there. Old is always 20 years older than your current age.
This YouTube vid looks exactly like my judge. (when I first bought it) I was um, a little rough on her. But hey, won many a race!
> This is like a auto dealership dropping Pontiac for Oldsmobile.
Oldsmobile? MDN is about a decade out-of-touch, when it comes to cars.
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But I agree. Seems like Droid (or some Android phone) has more long-term potential than a Palm anything.
AT&T;better hook it up fast in NYC… am starting to get pissed.
ken1w,
MDN’s point was crystal clear to everyone, but you, it seems:
Verizon dropping Moto Droid for Palm Pre is like a car dealer dropping a soon-to-be-defunct car make (Pontiac) for one that’s already defunct (Olds).
I’d like to give you an IQ test in order to establish a baseline.
Never forget that 50% 0f the population is below average.
I know a fellow who cannot determine whether he has an adequate iPhone signal strength to make a call, for example. The address book in far beyond the limit of his faculties. He carries his iPhone so others might see it, then, when he wants to make a call, he sneaks off someplace so he might use his inferior cellphone instead. Having an iPhone is important to him, though, and he shows his pride in the device – for some reason. Maybe he’s just in awe of what the iPhone might do for him.
This 50% rule means Apple isn’t very likely to control the cellphone market, I suspect, since that 50% may really not be smart enough to use a smart phone. Exactly how does one go about determining the minimum qualifications required of an iPhone user?
Might be better for Palm and others to design their devices as dumb phones. That way, maybe they could take a more reasonable chance in the marketplace.
Is Nokia already ruling the dumb phone market?
@MDN Take: “Verizon’s between a Droid and a Pre place”
I will put that slogan on my wall and worship it forevermore.
Wrong. There is no assurance that 50% of the population is below average.
Try this: 10+10+10+1=31. 31/4=7.75. In that “population”, 75% of the people are above average, 25% are below.
Perhaps you meant “median”, defined here: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52755.html
Hey, I ain’t the smartest, but 3 out of 4 (75%) are above 10, right? Isn’t 10 higher than 7.75?
Sorry folks for that comment. I was only kidding.
I love old people!
@ Superior Being
> dropping a soon-to-be-defunct car make (Pontiac) for one that’s already defunct (Olds).
You are an idiot for taking my comment so seriously. Besides, anyone with a measurable IQ can see that it is not even possible to sell a product that is “already defunct.”
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Apple doesn’t need to rule the cell phone market,
just the part that is profitable.
@krquet: Best MDN ever? Absolutely!
Best MDN take in a while…
Olds Toronado? A great car? Are you mad?
If you forgot to switch off the engine while you were refuelling, you would never fill the tank up.
It was a disaster on wheels.