Any Motorola Droid owners out there looking for a direction to which some frustration needs to be channeled? We present comments today from Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein, who had some things to say about Verizon and the Droid during Palm’s third-quarter earnings call this afternoon. Mainly, he says that the Pre’s a better product and that it could/should have been bigger than the Droid, it’s just that bad timing got in the way.
“We had an arrangement with Sprint that when we launched with Sprint that they would invest in marketing and carry the product and for that they would get an exclusive for a period of time. That really determined when we could do our launch at Verizon. I agree with your premise that if we could have launched at Verizon earlier, prior to Droid, that we would have gotten the attention that the Droid got and since I believe that we have a better product, I think we would have even done better.”
We agree that being stuck on Sprint (a fine carrier in and of itself, but a limiting factor nonetheless) kept Palm’s products from gaining better market share. But the Pre’s better than the Droid? Them’s fighting words. And, so, let’s get it on! [via PreCentral]