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FYI - Here's an interesting article by Ken Stewart that highlights some salient points on the recent product introduction of the Palm Pre. In it he writes about Palm's new webOS platform and aspects of it that in his terms are "game-changers", providing for a potential paradigm shift, not only in the mobile handheld, personal digital assistant device market, but for the interface between industry's technology and people, particularly in the way we live, communicate, and manage our information via the internet on the web worldwide.
For this reader, it provokes further thought: Not just on the face of it, but deeper down below the surface, there seems to be an underlying premise with the aspiring promise of moving toward a better way of doing things we've been doing with technology, and a more freeing lifestyle that enhances our social relational networks in the global multinational economy for upcoming millennial generations. This is ingenuity, creativity, innovation toward its best...
While some of that might just be hype, I am blown away by how the interface interacts with you, and Palm has always done a fairly good job at trying to anticipate what its customers want and what they don't know they want.
We shall see whether they can continue to deliver. While most tout that it has to be, or might not be, an iPhone or BlackBerry killer - that is irrelevant. There should be enough market to go around, and the trend is for our technology to do more to help us while interfering less with how to do for us - than in years past.
Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us here, Rex.
Yes, I agree. To help clarify and reflect further in dialogue, if I am understanding what they may be getting at here, it's not the product itself, but a/the change in how we view, apply, and employ such to better use and living.
I, too, was "blown away" by the transformative sense of seemingly effortless "being" in the more natural way this technology may be used by paying attention to "getting out of the[/our] way"! In this season of Epiphany, it was literally awe inspiring for me to watch this on my laptop, unfolding as it were a new vision of being for the future. There's a whole new world of possibility that appears to open up with this "newness" if its implications are really what I am thinking it will mean for our notions of mobile handheld worldwide communications.
I also concur with your sentiment that this or that being an iPhone or Blackberry "killer" is totally irrelevant. Competition in the global economy is good. To paraphrase the proverb: "As iron sharpens iron, so one [company or product] sharpens another." However, the larger, more important overarching view is much more exciting to consider in light of this new beginning for Palm, and possibly the rest of us users of technology as well.
Again, thanks for sharing in the technological discourse and journey with each other.