If you’re looking forward to the Palm Pre, Collins Stewart analyst Ashok Kumar has come to rain on your parade – he forsees the smartphone’s launch as being nothing short of a “disappointment”. Multiple factors contribute to Kumar’s prediction, none of which were psychics, crystal balls or tarot cards. Instead, Kumar believes that hardware and software issues will doom the Pre to mediocrity:
Kumar says “multiple hardware and software issues” have forced Palm’s hand here and that he doesn’t expect the company to meet its expected goal of one million units shipped in the second half of 2009. He even goes so far as to describe that figure as “highly unrealistic.”
Analysts have been wrong before, so I’m in no hurry to jump on this bandwagon. Palm has made solid devices for years and the new WebOS system is a huge step in the right direction. I’m not going to throw stones until the phone has officially launched and Sprint’s network is on duty.
[via CrunchGear]
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umm.. is there anything to actually back this up? If multiple factors contributed to Mr. Kumar's prediction, could you perhaps tell us what they are? Otherwise, you might have just written an article saying, “Some random dude you've never heard of thinks the Palm Pre's gunna suck. KTHXBYE.”
Hey Tedward – Sorry, I'm not a big fan of copying a whole post word for word, that's why I linked to the source material (CrunchGear). You're more than welcome to check them out if you're interested in more details. I give credit where credit is due.
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umm.. is there anything to actually back this up? If multiple factors contributed to Mr. Kumar's prediction, could you perhaps tell us what they are? Otherwise, you might have just written an article saying, “Some random dude you've never heard of thinks the Palm Pre's gunna suck. KTHXBYE.”
Hey Tedward – Sorry, I'm not a big fan of copying a whole post word for word, that's why I linked to the source material (CrunchGear). You're more than welcome to check them out if you're interested in more details. I give credit where credit is due.
Yeah tedward there is nothing to back this up but Kumars love for APPLE..Shawn even says he is not ready to attck Pre because some anal-yst says so. KUMAR get back to the white house you are all washed up!!
Yeah tedward there is nothing to back this up but Kumars love for APPLE..Shawn even says he is not ready to attck Pre because some anal-yst says so. KUMAR get back to the white house you are all washed up!!
Ashok Kumar is nothing he have took the money from APPLE so that he can say crap about PALM PRE. We’ll see how thing goes, Ashok Kumar is not a GOD that wotever he going to say will happened Pre is not going to be DOA
ok Mr Ashok Kumar …. the real reason is that APPLE is really scare now because the real competition is out . Get ready Ashok Kumar hate you man .
Ashok Kumar is nothing he have took the money from APPLE so that he can say crap about PALM PRE. We’ll see how thing goes, Ashok Kumar is not a GOD that wotever he going to say will happened Pre is not going to be DOA
ok Mr Ashok Kumar …. the real reason is that APPLE is really scare now because the real competition is out . Get ready Ashok Kumar hate you man .
what a douche! multiple hardware and software issues… wow. talk about some guy trying to get some attention here!
what a douche! multiple hardware and software issues… wow. talk about some guy trying to get some attention here!