As it turned out it was a lifetime achievement award for Palm's big-cheese that was announced… just as loony a decision (he's about to drive Palm into the ground despite his previous well-known successes) but T3's lunacy, not readers'.

I agree with your other comments re WOM for the Pre (their PRs have been painful control freaks since the announcement), but ultimately that will only accelerate their demise, not seal it.

As it turned out it was a lifetime achievement award for Palm’s big-cheese that was announced… just as loony a decision (he’s about to drive Palm into the ground despite his previous well-known successes) but T3′s lunacy, not readers’.

I agree with your other comments re WOM for the Pre (their PRs have been painful control freaks since the announcement), but ultimately that will only accelerate their demise, not seal it.

No offence, but from the off, it was to easy to tell that HTC would be the T3 gadget of the year with there Hero, we predicted it from the moment we saw it at launch, and we always felt that the Palm Pre would have a difficult birth, especially when they locked themselves to 02, if they are not careful and don't roll out a longer term influencer WOM campaigns for the Pre then there is the serious danger that they could fall Flat on there face with this device.

In fact most companies now have to really come to terms with the fact, that it is really dangerous not to give their products away to the Tech Cognoscenti for long term living with trials, as these are the Influencers, Influencers, and even if they do not get much feedback from doing this, the Tech Cognoscenti's words and deep level intelligence and flow through the many conduits of modern social media sites and they now have a long term effects on their products image,and ultimately sales, whether these companies like it or not. Nokia are just starting
to wake up to this very fact with there N900 after a long time in the wilderness.

In theory these Tech Cognoscenti are now almost becoming celebrities in there own right, a lot more of the mobile and computer companies need to start realising this and start treating them in that way.

Kind Regards & Best Wishes ~ IT Bloke.

No offence, but from the off, it was to easy to tell that HTC would be the T3 gadget of the year with there Hero, we predicted it from the moment we saw it at launch, and we always felt that the Palm Pre would have a difficult birth, especially when they locked themselves to 02, if they are not careful and don’t roll out a longer term influencer WOM campaigns for the Pre then there is the serious danger that they could fall Flat on there face with this device.

In fact most companies now have to really come to terms with the fact, that it is really dangerous not to give their products away to the Tech Cognoscenti for long term living with trials, as these are the Influencers, Influencers, and even if they do not get much feedback from doing this, the Tech Cognoscenti’s words and deep level intelligence and flow through the many conduits of modern social media sites and they now have a long term effects on their products image,and ultimately sales, whether these companies like it or not. Nokia are just starting
to wake up to this very fact with there N900 after a long time in the wilderness.

In theory these Tech Cognoscenti are now almost becoming celebrities in there own right, a lot more of the mobile and computer companies need to start realising this and start treating them in that way.

Kind Regards & Best Wishes ~ IT Bloke.

Sorry.