Peter's waiting to get in. The show will start at 11:00 Pacific.
Rubenstein describing move from Apple to Palm - he was pulled off of the beach. Rubenstein was Apple's product guy.
Palm is positioned to create some of the best mobile devices in the industry.
Great phone is important. Companies have forgotten that. More than a bunch of applications bolted to a phone.
We keep our information all over the place
Take all that information in your hand. Let all that date interact.
You need to have the RIGHT PHONE.
and you need the RIGHT PLATFORM.
What could that be?
Perhaps a Palm phone?
Ed Colligan President and CEO of Palm coming up.
Palm is the right company to bring you a great new platform and product. Improving people's lives.
Fingers, not button. Pockets, not processes.
not buttons, rather. The point is they care more about usability.
They didn't think about competing with the newton when the invented the Palm Pilot.
They wanted compete with pen and paper.
A couple questions all the time: How can we simplify people's lives?
Making the tech invisible.
Mobile is in our DNA
Which could lead to genetic diseases down the line, incidentally.
Today there is a new twist on the old problem of the smartphone.
In the old days we needed a media player so we had the Treo.
Now everything is online. Bringing things together in a seamless way.
Information is everywhere, people.
That's what Palm is trying to say here.
But Colligan is saying it over and over again.
OK
Here comes the big reveal.
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
Come on, dude. He's talking about facebook.
Essentially he's saying that the new OS will bring in all of your "accounts" into one platform. You could see images from Facebook on your contacts list, for example.
New platform. Redefine the center of your access point on the Internet. Connect to the cloud.
Palm WebOS
It's not called Nova
Built with developers in mind. HTML, CSS, javascript, Ajax.
This is kind of what Steve Jobs said about two years ago. No new languages to learn.
New Palm Pre