Enterprise-readiness: The enterprise is not a major focus for either Palm or Apple. The Pre, like the iPhone, supports Microsoft Exchange Active Sync to connect with corporate Exchange servers. But the iPhone also supports Cisco's VPN client and Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA 2) for .

Media: both support an array of current audio, image and video standard formats.

Right now, the biggest disappointment with the Palm Pre is the lack of information from Palm about the details, which people are clearly hungry for.

Apple's corporate ethos is "we're cool and you're not, use the product and bask in the coolness." Palm has the opportunity to crystallize a new corporate ethos more suited to the Web's democratic openness, and more importantly, to the Web's sense of that "Star Trek" adventurousness of boldly going where no man has gone before. Just take the users along for the ride, too.