Pimp My Pre

Oh Where Oh Where Could Our SDK BE???

That’s right, we’re officially filing our first complaint. You’re on notice palm! We have three able…..well normally you’d say bodied here, but I mean, we spend a lot of time in front of the computer….soo…minded, BINGO….We have three able Minded developers sitting here chomping at the bit to start doing amazing things with this so far amazing device. Yes that’s right, we said it. Sure there are bug reports popping out all over the place but that’s to be expected from an initial release. But other than a few bad apples the device itself is A OK in our books. Only problem we have, SOFTWARE! Oh Pre, How I loath your software, Let me count the ways:

1. We can’t change the sounds for ringtones or messages – we could fix that
2. We can’t directly download ANYTHING – we could fix that
3. Can’t use a gif as a wallpaper? – we could fix that
4. Can’t create a theme by changing icons, card colors, etc.. – we could fix that
5. Can’t lock your email inbox – we could fix that
6. Setting an alarm gives you an endless run of pop-up reminders – AARGH – we WANT to fix that
7. We can’t forward text messages – PLEASE let us fix that
8. oh, I could go on……. just let us code!

So yes, our laundry list is quite full, but wanna know a little secret??…..Not only would we be able to fix this stuff with the SDK, but we would feel more connected to the device in doing so. It boils down like this, think of the open source guy at your office. (side note for you regular people out there, you probably don’t have one of these, it’s mainly an anomaly that occurs in offices doing things of varying nerd-dom, which begs me to ask, what are you doing here? But anyhoo, I digress ) You know the guy that’s gonna rain on all your Mac, Microsoft and Adobe dreams with stories of doing everything and more with his free and open products. You wanna know why he’s attached to that stuff like a horny Chihuahua to the first open humpable leg…..besides it being free, the openness allows him to make it HIS. Whereas the Pre to us right now is only, the palm device One of us owns (he’s the only one with any money around here, blogging don’t pay kids, stay in school) But to him it’s still Palm’s device.

But you start letting us tweak and play and create and they will become ours and we will defend to the death our love for them. And every time anybody walks in with an iPhone or a WM device, or god forbid a dumbphone we will assail them with our knowledge and love and maybe create a convert.

So Palm, do the right thing. Let it loose. We NEED it. We want the Palm Pre to be OUR Pre. You’ve had your time. Oh, and I mean, if you’re not too busy you could send two more over this way for us less monied staff of PMP. That would be SWEET.

okthxbye