Nothing says Valentine's Day like trying to cash in on a vulnerable, insecure relationship -- and it looks like Palm's doing its best to, ahem, "be there" for Blackberry addicts left a little shaken by Monday's
network outage. The company's taken out full page ads in several national papers and changed its homepage to read that Palm devices include a little something called "uptime" -- which is actually pretty funny since we've got a Treo 750 here that's been rendered all-but-useless by AT&T's various outages these past few weeks, but we'll still grant points for panache. Of course, that still doesn't change the fact that a recent survey ranked Palm
dead last in customer satisfaction, but since when has being a homewrecker had anything to do with long-term happiness?
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coolsmartphone]
posted Feb 14th 2008 2:22PM
Oh no Palm Didn't!!!
That is hilarious
Oh yes palm did
While RIM's outages aren't good either, Palm has no business making fun of any other company's failures at this point.
Good for Palm. Using 3rd party servers is a cheesy way to make money.
They forgot to mention that their phones are big enough to be used as a weapon as well.
That is hilarious
If you can't do anything right yourself, throw mud on the competition. It must be an election year. Oh wait, it is.
Haha, that is so great great. Poor Blackberry :(
Shucks, who needs a presidential election when we have unethical banter like this!
Don't open a can of Whoop A$$ ya can't back up there Treo.
and palm has a competitive alternative ? since they dont, why even bash ? sell hardware ?
Like Palm is one to talk! They don't know the word "reliable" when being used with Exchange over direct push. It's daily routine is at least 3 hard resets!
I've been using Exchange Server with my T-Mobile Dash for a year and never had it screw up on me once yet? Are you sure your talking from experience or from fanboyism.
JAmerican
Pretty funny considering most corporate email systems support Blackberry over Exchange for mobile mail.
Genius to lock virtually non-existent systems to your declining market share product.
hmm...can anyone other than me spot the crackberry fanboys on this post? lol they do have a point though, what's that saying? you shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house?...something like that anyway, converting crackberry fanboys into palm is as easy as converting apple fanboys into pc.
A pox on Palm! By the time it takes to send one email on that piece of shite Treo, BB already has their servers back up and running. I guess BB should be ridiculed for upgrading their servers and actually giving a damn about their customers needs whereas Palm customers have to beg for a year for a worthless WM5 upgrade. It's a shame Palm, you were once the innovators and now you hate on a company who took what you created and made it better.
Right. So when Nokia advertises their new Nseries devices, they shouldn't forget to mention that they are better than BlackBerries because Flickr (which their photo application may upload to) is never down.
Quite an opportunistic move on Palm's part. Not to mention misleading and low. But what else could a company in their position could resort to?
"resort to", not "could resort to"