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Ninjas?  Blurrycam-Man?  Renderings?  Forget them.  I’ve got something better yet: absolute conjecture.  Follow me on this.

Palm can feel the garlic-y-sweaty breath of death on its back.  Survival mode kicks in like plane crash survivors in the Andes.  They know who Sprint is and hitched their cart to them for a long six months.  Somewhere there is a contract that says, “we grant Sprint the exclusive right to sell the Pre (gotcha!) for a period of six months…”.  They did it for Sprint’s advertising dollars as they needed someone to foot that bill.

Then on to prong two of the Palm “3 Ways to Win plan” (also fictional).  Palm will show some love to AT&T via the hit Centro webOS follow up, dubbed EOS (Every Ounce of Sales).  AT&T feels the love of stealing some of Sprint’s webOS thunder and gets an update to a pretty-good seller.  Palm gets high volume/low margin sales so it can continue to make payments.  Done.

Now, their third prong is the phallic Palm Prenis.  Verizon is top dog, el jefe, honcho, in the US and needs a decent touchscreen phone that can actually compete with the iPhone.  With Sprint, AT&T and Verizon all getting customers on the webOS, we’ll see an explosion of 3rd party apps that we haven’t seen, well, since the iPhone.  Palm desperately needs customers so developers will come; Palm can’t get them without the big 3 pushing their phones.  With the Prenis, Verizon has a competitor, something to crow about, a rocket in it’s pocket, if you will. 

The Prenis completes the scene for Palm: cheap entry, business entry and lifestyle phone: EOS, Pre, Prenis respectively.  Palm is thinking survival here, it can’t pick and choose like money-in-the-bank-Apple.  Survival mode says you build something for the big ones and get them out there. 

Why is the Pre taking so long?  A fighter doesn’t sign up for a fight if he only has the first punch ready.  He gets the 1-2 punches flowing then follows up with the death blow.  The death blow here would be the Prenis.  Insert witty comment here.

[Editor’s note: JG has apparently lost his mind.  It was last seen in a red convertible heading to South of the Border in Dillon, South Carolina]