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Palm Talks Smack: All iPhone Customers Will Switch to Pre this Summer
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Oh dear. Palm investor Roger McNamee appears to have had a little too much Red Bull before his interview in San Francisco yesterday. McNamee is a co-founder of Elevation Partners, which put an extra $100 million into Palm last December.
You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later.
Them’s fightin’ words, and they remind us of some similar bravado from Palm CEO Ed Colligan back in 2006, before the iPhone wiped the floor with every single competitor: Colligan, on rumors of an ...
Investidor da Palm aposta: “todos” migrarão para o Pre com o fim dos contratos do iPhone
MacMagazine —
Ousado demais ou necessitado de atenção — não sei dizer ao certo —, Roger McNamee — aquele grande investidor da Palm do qual falamos aqui em janeiro — afirmou ontem à Bloomberg que o Pre conquistará *todos* os usuários de iPhone assim que os seus contratos terminarem, a partir de junho.
“Veja que coisa linda: 29 de junho de 2009 será o aniversário de dois anos do primeiro iPhone”, lembrou Roger. “Nem uma pessoa sequer (sic) dessas estará usando o iPhone um mês depois.”
Ok, com essa modéstia ele já conseguiu um espacinho em toda a mídia e blogosfera mundial, tal como agora ...
Palm Pre Bits for the Week
jkOnTheRun —
It’s time for my weekly summary of Palm Pre news and there didn’t seem to be much. That will hopefully change next due to the first bullet point on our roundup:
Palm and Sprint are co-hosting an invite-only webcast on Thursday, March 12th. We’ll be there for the show and the Q&A expected to follow. I’m curious about the three differentiators that are exclusive to Sprint, which was mentioned in our invite.
Is the Pre still on track for the first half of 2009? Nobody but Palm knows, however they’re on record this week saying yes. Well, if you believe that saying something on Twitter is “on ...
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LIX: Elevation's McNamee predicts death to iPhone on June 29
Engadget —
Roger McNamee, founding partner of the Palm-rescuing investment firm Elevation Partners, has had some interesting things to say about what to expect from the Pre. Now, though, he's really out done himself with what he has to say about the iPhone. In an interview with Bloomberg, McNamee (aka "Chubby Wombat Moonalice" when playing bass) predicted that the Pre will bring the downfall of Apple's wunder-handset, saying: June 29, 2009, is the two-year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later. Think about it -- if you bought the first iPhone, you bought it ...
Palm’s major investor believes iPhone users will defect for the Pré
SolSie.com —
Palm s major investor believes iPhone users will defect for the Pr image According to a Bloomberg report , McNamee, the co-founder of Elevation Partners, the investment firm that agreed in December to pay $100 million to lift its stake in Palm to 39 percent from 25 percent, firmly believes that when the Palm Pré on Sprint network is released, Palm will be in the position to lure iPhone users especially the ones who committed to the gen-1 iPhone. “You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone,” McNamee said today in an interview in San Francisco. “Not one of those people will still be ...
Palm's Sugar Daddy Serves Up Another Load of iPhone Trash Talk [Palm Vs Apple]
Gizmodo —
... While this may or may not have some validity (the Pre is a beautiful phone), Boss McNamee omitted a couple of details about his potential iPhone killer here: a fair amount of initial iPhone buyers almost certainly upgraded to the iPhone 3G last summer (new two year contract!), and they won't all switch to the Pre. SO YEAH, WHAT, ROG?! NOT SO CONFIDENT ABOUT THAT NOW, ARE YA?! [Bloomberg via ...
Inversor de Palm: los usuarios de iPhone se cambiarán a Palm Pre
Celularis —
Está claro para que lado va a tirar el inversor de Palm, Roger McNamee, pero aún así sus declaraciones en una entrevista con Bloomberg son muy interesantes para analizar. Es el co fundador de Elevation Partners la inversora que pagó 100 millones de dólares en diciembre para llegar a un 40 por ciento en Palm.
“Ustedes conocen la cosa hermosa: el 29 de junio de 2009, se cumplen 2 años de la primer venta del iPhone y ninguna de esas personas estará usándolo un mes después”.
En ese sentido, McNamee está muy confiado en que Palm Pre sea el móvil que elijan todos esos usuarios ...
