Can I call the Palm Pre / WebOS a failure yet?

It's perhaps premature, but I couldn't help but notice that ComScore reported that the Treo represented 6.5% of the mobile touchscreen market, but the Pre was nonexistent for the 3 months ending August 2009. At the same time, Palm's last quarter statement showed that they shipped under 850K handsets. We already know the priced dropped by 25% less than 4 months into sales, which leads me to believe that the Pre is underwhelming. Mind you, the G1 had a 7.5 month head start on the Pre, but the Android G1 phone alone has already captured 3.6% of the mobile touchscreen market share.

More proof of Pre's failures can be seen at Sprint's own website, where CNET editor ratings are shown alongside customer's ratings:

Palm Pre
CNET Editor rating: 3.5 stars
Customer rating: 3.8 stars

Samsung Moment (Android)

CNET Editor rating: 3.5 stars
Customer rating: 4.5 stars

HTC Hero (Android)

CNET Editor rating: 4.0 stars
Customer rating: 4.6 stars

It's like I've been saying all along: Motorola made the right choice to go with Android and Palm made a bad choice to go proprietary with WebOS. With Motorola's Droid going on retail on Verizon this week, the Android platform is about to get a huge boost, and Motorola appears to be on the winning side.