Palm tweets about Palm Pre's flawed keyboard

Remember the Palm Pre? The other super-hyped smartphone from Palm? The one that launched a couple weeks ago? Fine, well, there’s this WebOS-powered smartphone from Palm. It’s called the Palm Pre and it’s supposed to be the company’s make-or-break handset – the one that will hopefully save the pioneer of the smartphone age from a quite imminent demise. It’s an awesome piece of kit that could very well rescue Palm from doom. But they need it to be a smash hit.

So, it’s a little puzzling (albeit, very commendable) that Palm itself has tweeted about a Palm Pre flaw. It seems the Palm Pre’s keyboard will automatically insert apostrophes in all contractions. All contractions except “y’all,” apparently.

Puzzling, because it points out a flaw in a device that Palm really needs to be a success. Still, Palm should be commended for owning up to any bugs – as long as Palm fixes them quickly.

Speaking of which, it’s probably safe to assume that Palm is already working on a fix and will have it issued through over-the-air (OTA) updates. Thanks for the heads-up, Palm!

Palm’s tweet

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juan

how’s that a flaw….even though they tweeted it….they could be just joking you know?
Andrew

This just proves how retarded you are, Will.
Chris

Y’all took their tweet a bit too seriously. This is humor, not an actual bug report.
john

Are you kidding me? Will, did you really miss the sarcastic humor in palm’s tweet? It seems to me that having a device automatically insert apostrophes into contraction is a great time saving feature, not a flaw. I’m still trying to figure out why so many websites go out of their way to make the Pre look bad.
BT

That was a joke that Palm was retweeting. Apparently you didn’t get it.
e138

I haven’t read your other articles, so I don’t know if this is a joke, but it reads as if you are serious and think that’s actually a flaw. Automatically putting apostrophes into contractions is feature and Palm was pretty obviously being facetious about it not doing it on “y’all,” and that is amusing because y’all is not a proper word (unless you are from Tennessee).

So if it is your style to spoof, as the Onion, but without humor, fine job. If you actually thought you were reporting something, then uh well, I don’t have anything nice to say.
Stefan

you’re kidding right? ….

there is no bug, the guy on palms twitter account was just retweeting a joke someone else made about the pre.

I hope you’re joking too or else you’re just plain stupid
ed

So, what you’re saying is that it’s a flaw in the OS and NOT the keyboard? And, that the title of this post is wrong and misleading.

Wait, you have an iPhone, don’t you?!
ed

Flame wars begin!
Ray

You are not only a tool, but a douche bag as well.
Fred

Dude, you missed the point.

FAIL.
Mac

It’s really a shame when online journo’s don’t consider their information properly, and publish an article like this.

How this so called “flaw” even has anything to do with the keyboard, I don’t know, but it was obviously a sarcastic quip made by Palm to their users.

It isn’t even a flaw, but rather Palm pointing out a critical feature in their OS.

The mind boggles as to how this article even got past editorial review and onto the site.
Jason W

This blog has to be a joke. No one could be that stupid.

Palm was retweeting something intended to be funny. Is “y’all” even proper English?