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Updated: it was for chinese new year.

Regardless of that, Palm should be shut down and sued into oblivion by everyone who was conned into buying a Palm Pre. I've been holding back a post that suggests Palm was building the Pre up as a way to flip the entire company, with no real plans or intentions of expanding the company. That didn't work out and they're WTFing.

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I'm curious as to why people should feel 'conned'; certainly there's the iTunes sync issue that was never resolved but that can't really be the entirety of your complaint?

I have a Palm Pre and like it, but I may be missing something as I didn't run out to get one at launch...

As a European user I feel let down that we still haven't got a paid app catalogue, and we're constantly lagging in the version updates. I think of it at present as a very promising phone that's let down by some major functionality issues (the alarm clock being unreliable for instance).

Just out of curiosity, what is it that gives you such suspicion of Palm's motives for WebOS? A close friend of mine bought a Pre near launch and while he doesn't like the hardware much at all seven months later, he agrees the platform has a bright future ahead of it.

You know, some of us actually like the Pre. It's highly pocketable, and WebOS is a genuine pleasure to use. I've been using the Pre heavily for a few months now, and I definitely prefer it to the iPhone, Droid, or Nexus One.

What makes you think that Palm is somehow being fradulent? That's a rather extraordinary claim.

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