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Apple to Buy out Palm?
JFlex writes "According to a story over at Personal Computer World 'Speculation that Apple plans to buy handheld maker Palm has been revived by a call from two leading Palm investors for the company to be put up for sale, according to the local paper of both companies.'"
...the Infinium Phantom will be released next month!
(Seriously...this "Apple to buy Palm" rumor has been going on forever...)
If Apple could make a Newton / Palm hybrid, it'd be the ultimate PDA.
Too bad the article isn't working for me.
Considering the previous technology leading position of the Newton MessagePad back in the late 1990s, and the fact that Steve Jobs killed it (calling it a "damn scribble pad"), coupled with changing demographics due dramatic shifts in the paradigm of handheld computing, if this actually happens I believe I speak for all former Newton owners, when I say WTF??
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
I don't know... If people start downloading pron from iTunes straight to the iPalm things could get iHairy.
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
This is perhaps the most elegant summary of the Newton's limitations I ever read:
Q: What's 2 + 2?
A: Farm
I've always thought they'd name their next PDA the "iSaac"
Cool, they can combine the Newton with the Palm and use Apple's exploding battery technology. Introducing NAPalm. Burn different!
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
Was this a subtle dig at the iPod Nano's screen? Do I really want to run a stylus across a screen made by Apple? *ducks*
-Peter
. Penguins Surely Ca