Saturday 30 May 2009
Why the Palm Pre Will Fail ☀
The Palm Pre UI is slick and appealing, new and innovative. But in the mass consumer handset market, only three things count: Brand appeal, simplicity and apps. And on all three counts, Apple clobbers Palm. That’s why iPhone has destroyed every other “better” phone that has come along.
Palm’s Synergy feature allows users to pull together contacts from multiple sources, and maintain threaded conversations across SMS, GTalk and AIM. Cool for tinkering geeks, but will your mom use it?
Gestures are less intuitive than iPhone’s. 3D game development is poorly supported in the webOS SDK. The UI is feature rich, but complex and only semi-intuitive for average users.
