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Originally Posted by patmannyc

Palm hopes people will buy treo's because of this product.

Palm paid people MONEY to develop this product.

Palm took the time to make this program FLAWLESS on their device.

Palm expects to be reimbursed for this time, money, and product by increased sales (long-term) because of this program that they have created.

Putting this program on other devices is stealing their product, which they MAY hope to SELL to other manufacturers that can pre-install on their devices as well.

Look how long it took for hackers to INSTALL the program, which they had in-hand, already produced, on the TREO 700, which is very similar to the 750. There are a lot of settings involved, and a lot of registry edits. You think they did all of this work so people who buy Samsung or HTC branded devices can reap the rewards?

I'm not preaching, I was guilty too. But I understand the drama here, its pretty obvious why they have a problem with it.

This is all true, but Palm really did this to themselves by not making this app available on the 700wx as was advertised. They made it available on the 750 which still to this day is not available to any U.S. carrier. Since I own a 700wx and the app was originally intended to be on the device I don't feel bad one bit about installing it. As far as I'm concerned I already paid Palm and had before several times. The rest of you that are installing this on other devices can feel guilty, but not me.