Mitch Allen, where's the beef?

So, Mitch Allen has recently been announcing himself in the public on how proud he is of the Pre and the technology it presents.

I can't say that I disagree wholly.
The Pre is a beautiful device, even with some visible sidesteps like not having removable storage options and no C programming toolkit.

But here's the real question Mitch.
Where's the PIM?
This is what made Palm, and companies like TealPoint, so cool.
They had really rich task/notes and calendaring functionalities.
You could USE THEM, with out buying a pile of other software, to get things done.

I had hoped that the new future direction of Palm software would be bringing in a day of more enhanced existing tools that made working in the Palm environment.

For example, what would have been astonishingly cool (and a step forward vs backward) were for notes and tasks to get expanded.

Who would think that would be even necessary to mention.

Maybe notes could have gotten rich attachments ala RTF/RTFD perhaps.
Embed a photo, or url, or a bulleted list in your notes.

Maybe tasks could have gotten hierarchical and some dependencies to make it more project-related.
Tasks could be grouped together, in oh... I don't know an "outline" style?

Maybe tags could have been employed instead of categories for notes and tasks and calendar items.

Has anyone looked at the notes app in the demos?
Could that have been any more simplistic looking?
Maybe I'm alone and these features are not necessary on the handheld, but man I feel like the SmartPhone industry is not steadily moving forward anymore.

And I really had high hopes Palm would lead the way to more powerful applications, but the Pre looks like another 'media device' that will have some possible light business function.

If there are limitations in entering repeating events in the calendar like the iPhone, I am going to go postal.

I think I'll start working on that open letter to Mitch I started last week.