The Palm pre, Worth The Hype? or Just another sprint Failure?

I have been following the Pre for a while now, And there have been more and more wild accusations of failure and success from less and less knowledgeable people every day.

Im really quite tired of hearing opinion stated as fact lately in the Pre-world, For instance
Today William Hurley Wrote a story for Business Week that everyone is calling a Hatchet job, (stock dropped over 70 cents after it came online).

The comments of the story (found here) have already been filled with people saying they will NEVER read Business Week again, And many saying that "if William hurley wasnt a has-been before this, he sure is now"

The problem with the story is that he tells it from a completely biased perspective, hurley was involed in the well documented "PreDevCamp" Fiasco, in which he became extremely frustrated with Palm's Community team. Apparently Palm Kept promising support but then kept playing the waiting game because they were so concerned about information leaking out.

It ended in hurley throwing a "nerd fit" and leaving PreDevCamp Altogethor (leaving the more sensible, less insane developers to continue in his path) And ultimately caused him to let out his nerdish anger in an Article from business week This morning,

All in all the Peice comes off as a smear campaign against palm, he takes Small quips and turns them into potential problems, takes alot of things out of context and puts his own spin on what they mean, its obvious he is trying to make fun on something he respects, he is fishing to find something really bad about the pre because there really isnt anything there.

he goes on about how RIM's MarketShare is growing, and How Apples Code weeds out Unseasoned developers,

All in all, There isnt a single more disgusting peice of reading ive done in my life, This guy is a stuck up programmer who thinks he is the most important guy in the world and that the pre couldnt possibly succeed without his help, "One week after the Pre's release, the press will be dominated by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. If, as expected, Jobs returns, that will steal Palm's thunder. If he doesn't, that will only steal Palm's thunder more." ...? What? Seems like your grabbing at straws to me, Sorry to say that if this guy was EVER a RESPECTED FIGURE in ANY industry, and credibility he had is now GONE.