[stcredzero]

I hope that someone over at Palm reads this and uses it as a playbook for the Pre. Actually, I hope that someone over at Palm already thought of all this, and that this is their playbook. And others as well.

The platform you need to beat in this plan is not the iPhone. It's the jailbroken iPhone. Make something that the real tech-heads and first adopters cheer, and they will be your beachhead. Do that, and you can get droves of the rest to follow you!

As usual, the hard part is not the idea, it's the execution.

[jgfoot]

Actually the Pre has all the features the article is recommending for Android: Over-the-air calendar, contact, and email syncing through Google services; background-capable apps; and no centralized App Store under one company’s ironclad control. (OK, there's no app store at all, although precentral.net and others are already distributing homebrew apps that can be installed if you download Palm's SDK).

[stcredzero]

I wonder why Google isn't doing an App Store?

[jcl]

Did you mean to say "Palm" instead of "Google"? Android has the Android Market, which is like the App Store.

[danudey]

Palm has an app store, it's just devoid of content.