PREparing for the PRE (Part 2)

I like to think that I pay attention to technology a bit. Somehow CES came and went, and I missed out on all the Palm Pre hoopla. Fast forward to April of this year, and some random browsing leads me to some Palm Pre marketing videos which hit a perfect sweet spot with me. All my random complaints on the limitations of WinMo seemed to be addressed. Even if in practice, I may never do what they showed in those videos, I kept on saying "That's me! That's what I want to do!"

Multi-tasking. True web browsing. Full contact integration. A better IM and contact screen. Better maps and true GPS. A device better suited to listen music to. The list kept growing in my head.

An aside: One thing that I realized about myself is that once I fall in love with a device, gadget, concept, etc. I can be pretty relentless in acquisition. Until the brink of death. Haha!

Needless to say, I'm pretty pysched. I'm prepared for somewhat of a line when I pop over an hour before the store opens.

I know that there's a lot of chatter about Palm and Sprint's ability to "compete" with the iPhone, and I really think that they have a decent chance, even without knowing what Apple will announce at WWDC. In my opinion, despite the so-called weak inventory of launch apps, they will have a chance to get a large number of applications quickly, if Facebook apps prove anything at all. Basically, just like with Facebook, developers will write apps (especially crappy ones) as long as they know that there are enough people out there to use them. Even better if you make it easy for them to write it versus having to learn a potentially newer language like you have to do for iPhone apps. This was supposed to be the promise of WinMo that never occurred. Not only was development difficult, you still had to learn a new language in a manner of speaking to develop on WinMo. I'm really excited to see what people will be able to come up with in the next month or so. Once they publicly launch the SDK, I may even write up an app or two if it makes sense to, to help automate some work related activities.

Well, this is it. I'm PREdictably excited!