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do I recommend the Palm Pre 100% I can recommend the Palm Pre to you are we gonna see an Apple TV no doubt they've got the set all ready to go Windows Phone 7 has tremendous potential when you hold it up to your face you can start to get a profile what that's gonna look like it looks silly and see myself going to an Apple store saying hey let me check out the new slate so yeah I was wrong so for the past 12 years up and sitting in some version of this chair talking to you guys reviewing electronics and during those 12 years I've had the privilege take a look at tons of tech products when I review something did a vacuum I'm reading a product in 2008 it's only frame reference I have I was able to find some videos of things that have changed companies that went sideways that I never could have predicted at that time so I humbly present to you my five biggest mistakes I've ever made on YouTube do I recommend the Palm Pre 100% I can recommend the Palm Pre to you but when I thought about mistakes the first thing that came to my head was back in 2009 with the Palm Pre I haven't been that many phones and I was crazy hyped about I mean when John Rubinstein took that CES stage and showed what webOS was it was amazing and I still think that's one of the greatest keynotes I have ever seen and I could not wait to get my hands on it it used card based multitasking I'm sure it's something like that sounds familiar had a slide-out keyboard capacitive touchscreen it had a gesture area it was a first one I can remember that offered inductive charging it had this touchstone charger it was an optional accessory to buy afterwards but it works and it works well in wireless charging back in 2009 seemed crazy futuristic this was the first true competitor to the iPhone and in a myriad ways was better than what Apple was offering so again benefit of hindsight Paul made a few really big mistakes it proved to be catastrophic first launching was sprint one of the smallest carriers in the u.s. at the time probably a mistake but the bigger mistake was the ad campaign that went along with the Palm Pre that was the most cringy weird ad campaign that said nothing about what was a really revolutionary device there were huge build quality issues again I had to get three before I found one that worked and if you go back and watch really almost any initial Pomfrey review they are glaringly positive I give it on a one to five scale I get the pump for you really really really solid four or three quarters people love these devices but consumers didn't know what it was they really know what smartphones are they were that much at a time it was kind of the iPhone or Blackberry it's something that the advertisement campaign could have come in educated people and they completely missed the boat I think in the long run Windows Phone 7 is going to be a tremendous competitor to Android and iOS I think it's sort of a nice in-between so a year after palm introduced webOS so in 2010 Microsoft entered the mobile OS game with Windows Phone 7 I was actually at the launch and I remember when they handed me my HTC and LG made Windows Phones and these things looked amazing and unlike any other phones I have seen this lie of tile interface give you information at a glance you could customize the tiles I thought Internet Explorer Mobile was actually a pretty good browser and it was the time for dogged me in the comments when the greatest things I think that Windows Phone had going for it there on-screen keyboard was ridiculously amazing the windows marketplace I thought was gonna be a burgeoning app ecosystem it didn't launch with very many he was oddly tightly integrated with Facebook but the absent I use I could get either first party or a third party app that did the same thing I went on camera and I said if you're looking to get a new smartphone I think you owe it to yourself to at least look at Windows Phone 7 because you might be surprised it feels very I guess unlike rasathi maybe the biggest problem was an app support that I thought was going to come never came and sort of a weird issue that popped up was Microsoft bought Nokia so the nokia started making windows phones and you're LG's and Samsung HTC didn't want to compete if it was essentially was a Microsoft company that was making Windows Phone hardware so they started to bow out but Windows Phone was around for a long time they didn't kill it until 2017 got Windows Phone 10 and they were all versions of good and you could see the vision that was supposed to be there just never took off with Microsoft hoped and speaking of that last word Pro I'm still not sure what's Pro here all right so for a more reason miss 2015 on the launch of the original iPad pro and that bit pro was definitely not what it is right now there was only one version it was twelve point nine inches and that seemed absolutely ridiculous to me running iOS it was sort of the first taste we saw of Apple's sort of tablet as a PC vision but it was very clearly not there yet but I wanted to try it I wanted to use it as my only computer so I was actually flying to Germany I was doing a video with BMW at the time so I took it with me trying to use it on airplanes was unwieldy trying to communicate and do all my email and type that et was fine when I do actual computer stuff it started to fall behind then I couldn't wrap my head around a twelve point nine inch tablet I didn't see a use for it I thought it was too big and running a phone os that didn't make any sense on something that size well I think where I started to really see the benefit of the largest ring size when sort of iOS gave it more tablet e and dedicated computer features not necessarily iPad OS but it could do more than the iPhone could when the current gen iPad pro hit with thinner bezels and the hole size shrunk down the screen size say the same but face ID can when the second-generation Apple pencil came out that's when it felt good and it started to see the power for what it could be and kind of now what it is with iPad OS it was a it was kind of a long ish evolution to get its apples vision I just didn't see it at a time so a 5 inch tablet when you hold it up to your face you can start to get a profile what that's going to look like it looks silly so do you think back on the very first phablet and I still maintain that I said phablet first on camera before anybody but you probably think the Galaxy Note that was not the first one Dell actually made the first phablet it's called the Dell Streak at least the first phablet that I reviewed it was 5 inches with gigantic bezels and it looked ridiculous Dell had no idea what it was how to market it they were like you could use it as a GPS in your car you can maybe use as a tablet that makes phone calls they didn't know what to do with it but I knew I wanted to try it so I put that phone in my pocket giant bezels and all and I walked around using it I remember I was in business school at a time and I met with my professor and I took it out because my wife was calling me and he laughed out loud like a guttural laugh and then pointed at me like what are you doing you are a crazy crazy human and it's hard to look back and be like why would anybody question a 5 inch phone back then phones were 3.5 inches generally speaking so this thing was ginormous and that I had gigantic bezels on top of that but the line died a very quick death but I still maintain the Dell Streak was an amazing tablet I believe I said that people should consider it and buy it and that was probably not accurate because the Galaxy Note line was coming and that was gonna be the phablet to get that was a phone first that could also be a tablet the streak was a tablet that could make phone calls that in hindsight probably not the way to go for the most part I'm pretty ambivalent towards the watch it's like I was toward the Android where this ambivalence comes with a really hefty price maybe one of my biggest like swings and misses 2015 and the Apple watch came out I was at the keynote saw Tim Cook on stage debut it and generally I can get super pumped and hyped for these products the keynotes I was like who why is somebody going to want this I was super invested and in love with my moto 360 running Android wear like that was a jam it was round I don't care about the stupid flat tire it had it looked awesome and I said very publicly that Android wear was amazing and it was gonna be what people should use and every watch should have Android wear and clearly that was also another miss but the Apple watch for me was nothing a more a notification machine and was kind of funny was the things I knocked on the Apple watch for just being notifications and kind of slow running apps or still the case on the Apple watch but I'm big enough man I could admit him miss on that because I love my Apple watch and I think what sold me on it as time passed and generations went by was the health features that got built-in obvious I'd love you can close the ring something that launched the watch but as more features God had it became more of a part of my day something I would just look at to see who what's calling me so I miss on the Apple watch also a miss on Android wear but I still maintain I was dead right about the Moto 360 being amazing and the greatest SmartWatch that was ever made so I had a blast looking back at these old videos cringing at myself and what it looked like and all that kind of fun stuff but also the benefit of hindsight now looking back she alter my perspective a little bit about videos I'm doing now so looking at 1 plus 7 Pro I gonna be sitting here in five years being like wow we didn't know what was gonna happen to a company like oneplus you know saying we didn't know what the iPad was going to be and now it's my only computer that I use in three or four years looking at the past got me thinking about the future and sort of reevaluating how I look at products maybe coming out of a vacuum a little bit more and trying to see a bigger picture so I think in that aspect can learn for the mistakes I hope you guys had fun kind of coming along with me they went through the time machine of tech mistakes past