Apple had set the baseline, which is forcing some old players in smart phone market to respond quickly. After blackberry storm it is Palm’s turn now
jkOnTheRun » Blog Archive Palm Pre Pics, Specs: the Charger is Semi-Adhesive! «: “Excitement continues over the Palm Pre at CES. While many people appear to be leaving the show early on day one, those that remain are still talking about the Pre. “
Rumour is most of the team that build Palm Pre is from Apple. Which proves your cultural legacy is important to create an Outlier
Palm did what Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft couldn’t: build a better experience than Apple: “How Apple centric is the new Palm team? Well, Chris McKillop is director of Software at Palm. He worked on the iPhone team (showed me pictures of me and my son buying iPhones at the Palo Alto store). One of the PR people at Palm did PR at Apple. Jonathan Rubinstein, who runs the Palm Pre team and led off the announcement, was a key person in development of the iPod and lots of people followed him from Apple to Palm, I heard from several people today.”
I still love my iPhone. :-)