PCWorld – It will be interesting to see how Apple reacts to news that Palm’s Pre knows how to interact with iTunes. While not a business feature, iTunes support would make buying or switching to the Pre much easier for millions of the iTunes faithful.
Multitasking, another key feature of the Pre, may be a more difficult sell as customers may not understand what the ability to run multiple applications simultaneously gets them. Isn’t task switching enough? Especially if you can already listen to music and read email at the same time?
Key to gaining acceptance will be excellent Pre demos showing users what the ability to run more than one application at a time can accomplish. This is fairly easy on a big-screen desktop PC, but on a tiny handheld out-of-sight has always meant out-of-mind for the user,
That could change as developers build applications–Android, Blackberry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile all support multitasking–that do or watch things in the background while only occasionally popping up a report to the user.
