Top Dog iPhone has gotten into a price war and the pr noise does not add up right to me at all.
First of all estimates are that the Palm PRE has sold less that 200,000 units, which is pretty amazing since the inventory is not there. Go into any Sprint Store and you can hold one, talk about but you are told to go the web for documentation.
Mind you ATT did not do much better at supporting the iPhone when it came out. The marketing power was all in hands of Apple.
So the price drop did not make much sense to me, after all Apple was keeping the price high deliberately for awhile and blackberry was not acting like a spoiler either. And of course the gPhone is still catching up to them.
So is the Palm Pre that good that is warrants a price drop?
I think Jon Rubenstein's departure may be more likely reason for the drop. Trendy people everywhere are pausing to think about the implications. And there is always a desire for new embedded in trends.
Right now we are in a phase where the original iPhones are going up for a contract, and many people I know claim they are keeping the phone as an iTouch but switching to another service.
So is Sprint's ability to steal customers at this moment as threatening as it sounds. I think the next two quarters should be interesting. And as a man who owned palm pilots and handsprings for years, I am interested in the software side.
Ultimately a phone is a phone, the smart side is the soft side.
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