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Originally Posted by somedude View Post
Exactly, these both turned out to be more of a cult devices and comparatively general population knows more about palm pre then n900, in that case n900 is worst, but the design of n900 is more elegant (just not the thickness) than the palm pre had (in my view). But if these both OSes were sitting on the more sexier device that has a mass market appeal and with the same marketing that palm invested in pre could have been a different story I believe. Also they first came out with only Sprint, they should have targeted verizon in USA who has a larger consumer base, also verizon did not have droid then, with verizon ads along with palm's advertisement together it would have been where droids are.
Palm started with Sprint, Nokia started with T-Mobile in the US. That's the number 3 and 4 carriers respectively.

Bad business decision, in my opinion - but that's based on hindsight which I have now, they didn't have it then.

Sexy devices don't always sell when they're not marketed well. The Palm Pre... remember those weird as hell commercials with the chick that just plain freaked you out? [ look here ]

The business decisions were questionable. Supporting their bread and butter Symbian though? That's one I can understand.