mjpaci is right. It's a fashion statement and the fashionistas and the "with it" crowd are going to be all over this. Add in the die-hard Apple fanatics and there's your 1% of the market right there. Once the phone is released, they'll be a story or two about how some poor kid was killed for his / her phone (replace the word phone with PS3 or Air Jordans for a previous example) and the press coverage will build even more. It will be the "must have" device of the 2007 holiday season.
Price and features don't matter. Coolness matters.
Well, you DO receive gifts from your kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, great-great grandkids, great-great-grandkids, great-great-great grandkids and so on.
Sort of a wash. (Or at least a major re-gifting opportunity)
Weren't the first Palms actually called the Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000? If memory serves me right, Palm got into a hoo-ha with the Pilot Pen Corporation, which why they gradually phased out the term "Pilot" - Palm Pilot for generation 2, then finally Palm for generation 3.
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Price and features don't matter. Coolness matters.
There's that many people there that would buy the product?
hmmmmm
Well, you DO receive gifts from your kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, great-great grandkids, great-great-grandkids, great-great-great grandkids and so on.
Sort of a wash. (Or at least a major re-gifting opportunity)
"Our attorneys are still reviewing the court filing"
Translation:
Putting on emergency backup pants.
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Weren't the first Palms actually called the Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000? If memory serves me right, Palm got into a hoo-ha with the Pilot Pen Corporation, which why they gradually phased out the term "Pilot" - Palm Pilot for generation 2, then finally Palm for generation 3.