Palm Pre Is the Most Open Mobile Platform on the Market

“The $299 that Sprint charges to let you out of the store with
the Pre isn’t justified by the phone’s out-of-the-box features, and
the anemic App Catalog presents few opportunities to elevate the
device to the capabilities of others in its lofty price range. The
Pre isn’t a bad phone, but it’s simply not worth the $200 to $250
premium over the BlackBerry Curve, the T-Mobile G1, and the iPhone
3G.

“I grabbed my Pre on June 6, but it wasn’t until July 16 that I
figured out where Pre, and Palm’s WebOS platform, actually fit in
the market for professional mobile devices. On July 16, Palm
released the SDK for WebOS, a set of tools and documentation that
Palm had, inexplicably, withheld. Why, I wondered, did Palm want to
keep the SDK out of power users’ and developers hands when the
WebOS platform was all about the ease with which new applications
could be created in JavaScript?”

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