Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "Palm Pre Users Suffering From Diminishing Support"

Wow, it seems like Steve

Wow, it seems like Steve committed blastphomy against someone's religion!

I do appreciate the education, but there is never a reason to personally insult anyone.

I was an HP engineer in the early 80's. I started this company in 1985 with a magazine about the HP 110 Portable, the first DOS laptop. We covered the HP 200LX Palmtop PC all through the 1990's with The HP Palmtop Paper, www.palmtoppaper.com . Then we wrote about Windows Mobile and now the iPhone (http://www.iphonelife.com/ ). Consequently, on a personal and professional level, we are VERY interested to see what HP does moving forward.

Mr. Steve Green really? I

Mr. Steve Green really? I Think I've had my day full of bashing people who's articles/info/sources are all screwy. but where in the hell did you get this info.

Yes there was a mistake in posting the Change log early. But that doesn't mean that the update isn't coming. And I don't know if you know but its really up to the carriers on whether the update gets pushed.

And finally your last paragraph is mostly true, and mostly pure bullshit about the future of Palm, no one knows, not even Palm or HP. And I don't know whether you've been living under a rock, but you should check PreCentral or webOSRoundup because HP is fully backing Palm in whatever they have to do.

Honestly,hearing from all

Honestly,hearing from all these dedicated HPalm supporters how do you feel right now? Stupid right? Please check your facts before saying anything like this again.

Precentral.net

Not much I can say that

Not much I can say that hasn't been said by others except one thing nobody else caught. The Palm Pre has had the Flash support added since the 1.4 update! Palm has been waiting the same as everyone else for Adobe to release Flash 10.1. Adobe had just this week released it to everyone this last week and I'm sure it will hit the app catalog as soon as it gets tested a bit. Either way get your facts straight before you go writing crap that could possibly stop people from supporting the best mobile OS out there.

Steve Green wrote: Thank you

Steve Green wrote:

Thank you for your comments,

I had intended this simple post to be an observation on the facts that an update appeared to be coming based on Palm's site, and four days later they took it down.

My other comments were questioning if Palm Pre users, such as myself, will continue to see support for our devices now that Palm has been acquired. The uncertainty is based on comments made by HP's CEO earlier this month and since most of us don't know exactly how this will play out after the acquisition is complete, support for our current Palm phones is up in the air.

Really? The availability of the next point release is what you need to determine a bleak future? Really? And you took old comments from the CEO, out of context, without including the clarifications that HP made ofter that interview - and from that you determined that HP will use their $1.2b acquisition to stop supporting Palm users and make a webOS play that runs counter to being successful in the smartphone market? I mean REALLY?

Do you really think there is anyone other than you questioning whether you will continue to get support for your phone after the acquisition? Really?

I'm not here to be a Palm fan. I'm here because this is nothing more than hack reporting, and it needs to be pointed out. Really.

Since you didn't do the

Since you didn't do the research, here are some links to make it easier.

Let's start with HP saying the plan to invest another $200million in Palm when the acquisition is done, probably on July 1st:
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=252252,00.asp?hidPrint=true

Then will quote from this HP executive's official blog:
This message goes out to all fans of Web OS. Stop worrying and speculating. When the deal closes I'm sure you'll hear about lots of great things from HP, until then just know this... We all absolutely love it, we love using Web OS. It's simply fantastic. Instead of worrying you should think about developing Apps on it as soon as possible.

http://www.rahulsood.com/

And finally:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Palm-Despite-HP-Bid-Has-Plans-for-Future-Devices-Says-Developer-306996/ where an HP exec is quoted as saying "yes, we have a road map. We are working on future devices. And a new version of the OS. So I think you're going to find the next year very exciting."

If I can find that much in 5 minutes of searching the web, I think a professional such as yourself could find something better than "no mention of flash in the sprint release notes for 1.4x".

Really? I mean, REALLY?

As a palm pre user yourself

As a palm pre user yourself Mr. Green, you really should try to stay ahead of the curve when reporting on this product, and know that speculative remarks could be miscontrued as fact, repeated over and over in other blogs & twitter, and perceived as fact. I'm thouroughtly convinced that obvious casual observers (sad to say, like yourself in this matter,) will get their standard press release that explains al that very soon. Until then, please, save the death talk and visit Precentral.com & WebOsRoundup.com before spewing outdated hypotheticals.

Congrats on writing an

Congrats on writing an article so bad that you are generating new subscribers just so we can leave comments.

Dude, you need to do some research. The contents of 1.4.5 have been known since Palm talked about it at the developer conference. It is primarily updates that benefit developers and make it easier to port apps from other platforms.

And Palm doesn't release Flash... Adobe does. WebOS has been flash-ready for months.

There isn't enough space to address all the problems you crammed into one short article. Suffice it to say, you have really harmed your credibility with anyone that knows much about this industry, and Palm in particular.

You need to print a retraction. And you need to think before writing such nonsense.

And you got all this from a

And you got all this from a Change log error.....First as far as I can tell palm has been doing big things with developers to increase the number of apps in their app catolog, a new PDK is out and palm has been supporting developer seminars all over the country. The HP acquistion seem to be going smoothly and both Palm and HP are keeping customers up to date on any related news. John Rubenstein is still gonna run Palm and they are hiring new people to continue to develop technologies....So here's a couple of questions? Why would HP shell out over 1 billion bucks for a mobile phone company if they don't intend on being successful @ making mobile phones? Why hire new people to help develop new Palm devices ? Why continue to build a App catolog ? As I see it palm is gearing up to do battle in the mobile market not only phones but tablets and other handheld devices. You don't spend a Billion bucks on a cellphone company and acquire Webos just to make your printers, toasters and microwave ovens better. palm is supporting their customers and reassuring them that the future is bright with the HP/Palm merger. Let look @ the whole picture....do good reporting..IE report the facts...and not try to predict the future, you're not that good @ it.

What a misleading, if not

What a misleading, if not patently false, headline... For more reliable and accurate reporting on Palm and webOS, see http://precentral.net and http://webosroundup.com

Smartphone &amp; Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "Palm Pre Users Suffering From Diminishing Support"