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Originally Posted by monkeyboy
Agreed... I was majorly disappointed not to see even a credible replacement for PalmOS Memo. And the death of Palm Desktop without a replacement was also a mistake...
But also Sprint killed the Pre... by forcing new plans... no existing customers are allowed to put a Pre/Pixi on an existing legacy plan ... that locked out 80-90% of all of Sprint's current customers who are the greatest pool of customers likely to adopt the Pre.
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I totally agree about the Sprint's restrictive plan upgrades for older plan holders. Requiring the Everything plan was the kiss of death. When there was sooooo much hoopla over the Pre when it first came out there was tremendous interest in it. But Sprint made it too restrictive to get it and the initial sales were WAY below expectations. Then along came Android and end of story. Opening up to the Verizon market was too little too late.
Today's announcement is really the nail in the coffin. With this news, NO one is going to get a Pre. Who wants a smartphone and OS that will possibly defunct in 6 months. Too bad, because they had an opportunity to make it something special but Sprint partly ruined it.