The Inside Story of the Failure of Palm and the Pre

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I love my Palm Pre.

Though I now have the latest and greatest Android phone etc etc, the Palm was the better attempt at making a truly usable and intuitive smartphone. 

Android is Linux: yeah, you can customize it, but it just kind of sucks to use. Palm came up with something really new and innovative with the Pre.

This is the inside story of how they did it, how close they came to falling apart even before the release, and why they so quickly faded into nothing after the Pre came to market (though in my opinion the single decision to go Sprint only is what doomed the company). 

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