{"id":444599,"date":"2010-03-18T17:47:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T21:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"15198 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-03-18T17:47:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T21:47:23","slug":"palm-ceo-pre-would-have-done-better-than-droid-if-it-launched-first-4th-quarter-to-be-grim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444599","title":{"rendered":"Palm CEO: Pre would have done better than Droid if it launched first, 4th Quarter to be grim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We just finished listening to Palm’s earnings call for Q3 2010 and while there’s nothing that will blow your mind, there were a few tidbits we thought we should point out. First – we’ll just say at the outset that our longstanding concern about passion and knowledge about webOS inside Verizon was confirmed and then some – CEO Jon Rubinstein alluded to the challenges Palm faced launching after Droid a few times. Our favorite was when he expressed his own opinion which is pretty much mirrors ours: <\/p>\n

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We had an arrangement with Sprint that when we launched with Sprint that they would invest in marketing and carry the product and for that they would get an exclusive for a period of time. That really determined when we could do our launch at Verizon. I agree with your premise that if we could have launched at Verizon earlier, prior to Droid, that we would have gotten the attention that the Droid got and since I believe that we have a better product, I think we would have even done better.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More analysis of the earnings call – including why the coming quarter is most likely not going to be great for Palm – after the break.<\/p>\n

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  We just finished listening to Palm’s earnings call for Q3 2010 and while there’s nothing that will blow your mind, there were a few tidbits we thought we should point out. First – we’ll just say at the outset that our longstanding concern about passion and knowledge about webOS inside Verizon was confirmed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}