After providing a brief timeline of how I got to be 12th on the waiting list for the Palm Pre at the Grand Junction, CO Sprint store, I thought I would post one of my favorite threads from Facebook. You can also follow the drama on Twitter.
The user "Rachel" is my wife. That will explain her comments a little more. She is tired of hearing about the Pre as are most of my other Facebook and Twitter friends.
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AT&T wouldn’t be working this hard unless they thought their exclusive deal was threatened. What would a Verizon iPhone do to the Palm Pre’s adoption.
While, deep down, I love Palm and hate to think of them going out of business. It would be a brilliant move on the part of Apple. It would certainly kill off any chances of the Pre posing a threat to the iPhone or Blackberry.
Piled on some of the flat surfaces of my desk, I have a Marie Osmond fashion doll, a Ronald Reagan mask, a visible man model, a box of vintage bow ties, some Ken Struck toys from the 50s, a Canon Rebel xti, an Asus Eee PC, and a cool Homer Simpson Rubic’s cube.
At my house, this is known as my eBay fodder pile.
I save up unique items for several months and then put them up on eBay when I want to buy an item that doesn’t fit on my wife’s list of budget approved suppiles.
This pile has been gathering dust for a long time now. Not because I don’t have anything on that unapproved list, but because I don’t have any outlet to sell these items. Read the rest of this entry →