The Palm Pre was the 6th best selling smartphone in the US for the third quarter of 2009, there were no surprises right at the top with the iPhone in 1st position. The rest of the places were dominated by RIM’s Blackberry.
The fact that the Palm Pre has come in 6th puts it in a good position coming up to the holiday season, what impact the Pixi will have on the figures remains to be seen. There is also the Motorola Droid that will come into the mix, so the Pre is going to have a lot of work to do to move up the charts. The fact it is a better phone than all the rest counts for nothing when it comes to these kind of charts, it is numbers of units sold.
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No one can argue that there is hot rivalry between the various companies developing smartphone technology after all they are businesses with the sole aim of making more money, the easiest way for them to do this is create better and cleverer devices for the masses to consume. Good news for all you gadget nerds out there. There is a downside to all this on the one hand the desire and push to become number one will produce great technology like the Palm Pre, however if you are unable to achieve growth and sales the bottom line comes into play. A great device that makes no money will be dumped out of the production line without a second thought.
The fight the Palm Pre has got on its hands is a massive one as the graph above shows, for the last few years the next generation smartphones have been giving Palm a real hammering. It is only with the release of the Pre that downward spiral seems to be at least levelling out. A few optimists may have expected more, the pessimists will say “told you it wasn’t an iPhone killer”.
However the analysis is a little premature and the Palm Pre is only setting off on its fight against its major rivals, the introduction of the Pixi will add some extra clout to the Palm fight. There is a sense of reality in the figures shown the idea the Palm Pre was going to take over the world was a misplaced one I do not personally think Palm did enough PR in the UK for the Pre and it ended up being just another smartphone upon launch.
Also Palm doesn’t quite have the wow factor of Apple or Blackberry, I have had many a discussion about this issue over the last few weeks and I firmly believe that if you took the Palm Web OS and stuck it in an Apple iPhone cover it would be a lot better appreciated. The iPhone has people buying it because it’s cool and the Blackberry because people want to be execs. Palm isn’t like that, it has always been the domain of the more tech savvy customer someone who wanted more than just email Palm was big in the days when PDA’s were cool those days are now long gone.
Being cool in the smartphone playground is a lot harder as you have to increase your customer range from the tech savvy Internet guru to the day to day task organising company secretary. This means that the simple sleek interface of the Pre has to continue and be improved on, it is great there are some geeky features like the gesture area and touchstone whilst the overall interface can rival anything in the smartphone arena.
Although the Pre may have saved a rapidly sinking ship, it has the bigger task of sailing it to truly safer waters. There is no clue as yet to say whether the Pre or anything else Palm can conjure up will be able to do this; the biggest weapon in Palm’s arsenal is likely to be webOS.
The survey was carried out by ChangeWave who surveyed 4255 consumers out of which 39% have smartphones. Survey results were found via precentral.
No one can argue that there is hot rivalry between the various companies developing smartphone technology after all they are businesses with the sole aim of making more money, the easiest way for them to do this is create better and cleverer devices for the masses to consume. Good news for all you gadget nerds out there. There is a downside to all this on the one hand the desire and push to become number one will produce great technology like the Palm Pre, however if you are unable to achieve growth and sales the bottom line comes into play. A great device that makes no money will be dumped out of the production line without a second thought.
The fight the Palm Pre has got on its hands is a massive one as the graph above shows, for the last few years the next generation smartphones have been giving Palm a real hammering. It is only with the release of the Pre that downward spiral seems to be at least levelling out. A few optimists may have expected more, the pessimists will say “told you it wasn’t an iPhone killer”.
However the analysis is a little premature and the Palm Pre is only setting off on its fight against its major rivals, the introduction of the Pixi will add some extra clout to the Palm fight. There is a sense of reality in the figures shown the idea the Palm Pre was going to take over the world was a misplaced one I do not personally think Palm did enough PR in the UK for the Pre and it ended up being just another smartphone upon launch.
Also Palm doesn’t quite have the wow factor of Apple or Blackberry, I have had many a discussion about this issue over the last few weeks and I firmly believe that if you took the Palm Web OS and stuck it in an Apple iPhone cover it would be a lot better appreciated. The iPhone has people buying it because it’s cool and the Blackberry because people want to be execs. Palm isn’t like that, it has always been the domain of the more tech savvy customer someone who wanted more than just email Palm was big in the days when PDA’s were cool those days are now long gone.
Being cool in the smartphone playground is a lot harder as you have to increase your customer range from the tech savvy Internet guru to the day to day task organising company secretary. This means that the simple sleek interface of the Pre has to continue and be improved on, it is great there are some geeky features like the gesture area and touchstone whilst the overall interface can rival anything in the smartphone arena.
Although the Pre may have saved a rapidly sinking ship, it has the bigger task of sailing it to truly safer waters. There is no clue as yet to say whether the Pre or anything else Palm can conjure up will be able to do this; the biggest weapon in Palm’s arsenal is likely to be webOS.
The survey was carried out by ChangeWave who surveyed 4255 consumers out of which 39% have smartphones. Survey results were found via precentral.
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