Alexander welcome Rubinstein on stage, who wore a blue-striped shirt and blue jeans. He thanked the crowd for coming and said he hoped the Palm Pre would amaze and delight them. Rubinstein gave a special thanks to Elevation Partners. “Without them, we wouldn’t be here tonight,” he said.
Colligan followed Rubinstein. He said the Pre team was maybe 10 or 15 times smaller than the teams of the company’s rivals. Then he showed the first Palm Pre TV commercial, which starts with a bunch of people dressed in orange robes in a circle in the shape of a power button. A woman in the middle of the circle navigates a Palm. Clearly, they’re targeting women with the very zen-like ad.
Then Hesse came out and said they were “wrong when they said there is nothing fun for the whole family.”
“There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry,” Hesse joked. But he said that’s exactly what the Palm Pre is.
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