Treo 700p whac-a-mole – Verizon update offline again

Apparently, Palm’s employees still haven’t completely satisfied their lust for Treo 700p update whac-a-mole! Verizon’s version has just been pulled once again because of “of increasing customer reports of network connectivity issues following the updates”.

(sarcasm on – you know who we talk about)
Senior Urp Burp management has been seen hitting Eeker 900f’s with over-sized, furry rubber spoons all over Urp Burp’s office; celebrating that their developers have managed to bork up the Eeker 900f maintenance release once again.

Urp Burp expects that the permanent borkups with the eeker 900f will lead to significantly increased sales of the new Eeker 955f – a device that offers only minimal improvements over its predecessor and has been difficult to sell to new customers after the arrival of the Apple iPhone.
(sarcasm off)

Let’s be honest: there is a pattern behind this, folks. It could be very possible that Palm is borking up the maintenance releases on purpose in order to increase sell-through for the Treo 755p. In fact, this is entirely possible – what does the Treo 755p offer that makes it worth 300$ to a 700p user(let’s ignore the form factor for now)?

Incompetence could of course be a reason, too – but why has Palm then managed to release a rather well-working Treo 755p?

What do you think?

P.S. I wouldn’t wonder if carriers start to “upgrade” their customers to 755p’s for a nominal fee to keep them happy…
P.S.2 I guess that you now know why Palm won’t use ALP. Yes…customers could switch to another manufacturer easily after such a borkup…without leaving all their old software behind. If HP would bork around with my ipaq as much as Palm did with the 700p – I’d just get a box from somewhere else!

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1. Verizon’s paid Treo 700p update leaked
2. Random thoughts on the Palm Treo 700p ROM Update delay
3. Palm Treo 700p ROM update – delayed again; Paul Loeffler winners in
4. Sprint Treo 700p update here, Verizon coming soon
5. Verizon’s Treo 700p gets a final update