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Bloomberg Reports That Palm Is Up For Sale

Posted by timothy on from the handwriting-on-the-wall-is-graffiti dept.

leetrout writes with this excerpt from a story at Bloomberg News "Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, put itself up for sale and is seeking bids for the company as early as this week, according to three people familiar with the situation."

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  1. Re:Palm don't want my money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I live in a rich country in Europe

    What sort of idiot talks like this?

  2. Re:Palm don't want my money by 0ld_d0g · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apparently a rich idiot ! :P

  3. Re:No surprise. by itsme1234 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The point was that palm sucks for apps, app-store or not. Of course the manufacturers/carriers don't HAVE to use the app-store to lock in users but they usually do it:
    - really aggressively in Apple's case
    - somehow inefficiently and without a compass for Palm (but they still do it), see http://www.weboshelp.net/all-webos-news-articles/490-palm-webos-104-released-closes-e-mail-install-loophole-on-pre
    - mixed bag with symbian, it usually depends on the carrier
    - quite rarely but still Android lock-out happened already (with some Australian carrier if I remember correctly).