product...
possibly, palm got commitments from sprint and
verizon. these commitments can be used as collateral
for a bank loan...which funds the development...
--- Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, Wallach, Levi.
>
> >Sprint (and Verizon for the 700w) must be paying
> Palm a LOT of money for their exclusive! How many
> customers do these carriers have each? Maybe 50-75
> million? Compare that to the hundreds of millions
> of cell phone users throughout the world whose
> carriers only use GSM. Seems to not make much sense
> to only limit your marketplace to a single small
> segment for many months. So I assume Sprint and
> Verizon must be paying lots of money for this
> privilege...
>
> Or... Palm is doing it this way as a "limited roll
> out" to find and fix
> the harder-to-find bugs, that can only be found with
> real-world usage.
> Then, they can release it world-wide with a newer
> firmware to address
> the newly found issues.
>
> --
> Jeffrey Kaplan
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> Peter's Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An
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> Although it would provide amusement, I will not
> confess to the hero's
> rival that I was the one who committed the heinous
> act for which he
> blames the hero.
>
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