This is why there is no Palm Desktop

Do you want to know why there is no Palm Desktop Software for the Pre?

Because they think you don't need it anymore and Palm is tired of "Sync" challenges.

What do you think the percentage of support calls at Palm were related to:
Device OS issues or Syncing related issues?
If I had to guess, a majority were related to "syncing" problems.

Here's why Palm thinks you don't need it anymore:
Windows users have Outlook as the desktop component, that is what the majority will use on Windows no matter what phone.

Apple users have Address Book and iCal and that is what the majority will use no matter what phone.

Linux, well Linux has 10 different ways for 10 different people.

They already have 'syncing' solutions. (Linux, not so sure on the maturity)

Palm hopes in this round to let 3rd party developers or the major desktop OS vendors deal with syncing and  let Open Standards and OS-Centric features solve the issues.