It seems that AT&T is getting ready to poison the Pre well by providing its staff with a damning comparison between the upstart Pre and that phone of phones, the iPhone. When was the last time you saw such a preemptive strike against a phone? I don’t think even the G1 got this kind of consideration. Let’s see what AT&T has to say about Sprint’s comeback kid.
Like the guys at Pre Central, I’m not going to take the time to debunk every claim on the list. Some are certainly legit (the iPhone certainly has a bigger screen and is indisputably constructed from metal), but some are questionable (calling out webOS as unintuitive before it’s even out — Classy) and some are ridiculous (drag and drop music is a bad thing now?).
On the whole, though, I will say it’s a kind of a low and misguided blow. AT&T might end up highlighting the useless or expensive parts of the iPhone (”Oh so I can use it in Spain? How much does that cost?” or “Doesn’t the glass screen make it more likely to crack?”) at the same time as they give the Pre a lot of cred just by protesting too much against it.
[via Electronista]
I wonder if they could be sue by Palm for False advertising a product that is not even out yet?
What about defamation?
Some of the points are true, but the inaccurate and misleading ones make me sick.
* “Full QWERTY vs Onscreen QWERTY” yeah, great, lets TOTALLY downplay the fact that the palm has a HARDWARE keyboard..
* Trying to actually argue about it’s COLOR
* Unproven app store… that is just reading
* Probably the worst is “not intuitive”
I HATE that word, intuitive, Apple fanboys toss it around EVERYWHERE, especially in relation to GUI, even though it means Goddamn NOTHING.
Its a marketing buzzword, its as baseless as “AAA title” or “True HD”, there is quantifiable way to judge something as is or is not intuitive. Its just a word that sounds nice and Apple has managed to brainwash people into thinking that intuitive=good, whatever it is=Apple=something only Apple has.
Lying is a much preferred advertising strategy in the big-business world.