04 Apr 09 Palm Pre Takes Advantage of iPhone Flaws

Restrictions of the iPhone have become an opportunity for competitors to bank on as the Palm Pre has announced that they will highlight such restrictions and perhaps shift the user preference in their favor with the shortcomings of the Apple iPhone.

At Sprint’s press lounge during the CTIA Wireless Association’s annual event, Palm stressed the advantages of the new webOS platform at the heart of the Pre by running presentations of carefully selected third-party software live on sample phones.

The most advanced was Pandora’s Internet radio app. On an iPhone OS device, the music service is partly neutered by Apple’s refusal to allow true background tasks, preventing users from listening to streams while they run other chores; on the Palm Pre, Pandora not only runs in the background but hooks into the always-on notification bar to let listeners approve or dismiss songs without having to even switch active tasks.

Regardless of what the Pre and webOS may do correctly for app developers, however, timing may potentially sink Palm’s success in attracting developers as wells as Palm owners. Palm and Sprint continue to cling to a “first half of 2009″ release date in spite of more than half of that time already having disappeared. With a late spring launch now the most likely, Palm may have to contend directly with Apple’s third-generation iPhone launch expected at or around WWDC in June.

(Source) Apple Insider

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