With a phone like the Palm Pre there is bound to be endless scepticism as to it’s capability to survive in the aggressive smartphone market.  There are so many products in this market that are excellent devices like that people are very dedicated to and thoroughly enjoy using them.  Can the market handle yet another one of these devices especially with the economic state we are in now?

Competition is always good and drives companies and products to be better.  If a product is merely adequate and has no compelling reason for people to upgrade to it there is little chance that it can survive in the marketplace.  Even with a large company backing a product there is no guarantee that it can advance and gain sufficient market share to be viable.

The Microsoft Zune is a good example of a company with endless financial means unable to make a product that is compelling enough for people to switch to.  The features are adequate but not impressive enough to actually convice people to switch from a product like the iPod.

Enter The Palm Pre

With a very convincing presentation at CES and judging from the reaction’s of spectators it was obvious that there are enough features to give the Palm Pre that wow factor it needs to survive.  But there is always that initial impact of a product on people in this type of environment that can just simply cause false excitement that won’t realize themselves when actually looking for a product to purchase.

The scobleizer was one of those there at the Palm Pre presentation at CES and had that initial excitement but decided to wait and see if it was falsely generated.  He delayed posting about it to make sure that he really did like the product and that the excitement was genuine.  Going back to the Palm Pre booth later on and getting to check it out he was able to see that the excitement was real and that Palm could pull it off.

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