Palm pre and competition

Did palm pre get a lot attention? Probably yes. It enters the market while smart phone business still becomes hot issue. Good timing, but at the same time, hard competition. With only 1 design, even have great OS in it, people still in doubt on buying that phone. Buying is an expense, so design and variant are some of important things to consider. Not only OS.

How much money had spent on creating booth hardware and software by Palm alone? Is it worth gambling too much on this competitive market? Speculation is for what they have done I think, but there's no other option. If any possibility to sell their OS, its should be done quick on grabbing better revenue in short period, before others create one with equal quality. Palm really had to sprint...