Dear Palm: What I’d like in the next update
We know that webOS and the Palm Pre are 1.0 1.1 products, so we’re going to cut you some slack for now. But that slack is starting to run out, and looking at the competition there are some areas where I think you could improve the Pre to both catch up to and leap frog over iPhone and BlackBerry and Android. So here’s what I'd like to see in the way of software updates before that slack runs out and the real complaining starts.
My list is after the break, and it’s by no means comprehensive. Feel free to sound off in the comments if there’s something you think should be added in!
Oh, and Palm, this isn't an ultimatum or anything. It's a wishlist. Of stuff I want. So consider it a shopping list, and you're the grocery store. Some things we can do without, but others are staple items that we need to get through the week, and if you don't have it, we might have to go across town to the other grocery to get it. After a while, that can get kind of old and we might consider just going to the other store. We don't want to, as it's simply not as nice, but they have a lot of what we need.
Talkin’ Pre — Week ending 14 August
Ouch! This was a pretty tough week for Palm. Somehow the company managed to survive the relentless slings and arrows to have their stock end the week just over $14. But man o' man did they get pummeled. So here's a quick run-through of some stories that dominated Palm's news cycle.
Morgan Joseph downgraded PALM stock to Sell on Thursday. At the beginning of the year, they went from HOLD to BUY. In April, they moved back to HOLD. And this week, it was "no mas!"
"...given our belief that Pre sales have slowed significantly. Our checks have shown that Pre sales have slowed to approximately 100,000 units in July, from approximately 200,000 in June, and we believe August shipments are tracking lower than July's"
Read more here.
More salt on the wounds... Eric Savitz of Tech Trader Daily piled on with a post that noted this downgrade and pointed to "a similarly bearish note" from Collins Stewart analyst Ashok Kumar.