Does HP + Palm = Facepalm?

ChiefMonkeyGrinder submitted a bit of commentary on yesterday's news that Hewlett-Packard was buying Palm. From TFA: "When I first read the news that HP was buying Palm for $1.2 billion, my first reaction was that HP had lost its marbles ('clueless' was how I tweeted it). Why, I wondered, did it need to pay $1.2 billion for a dying platform when it could have used the increasingly popular Android for nothing? (OK, it probably picked up a few useful patents, as well.) I also thought that it didn't have the resources to enter the extremely competitive area of smartphones."

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Well

[OverlordQ]

I totally thought âÅ too.

Re:Well

[WrongSizeGlass]

I totally thought âÅ too.

That was my first reaction, but then I thought "âÅbee" which sounded like "maybe" and I thought that maybe HP will try to tie their new handheld devices to laptops as a "bundle". Then I thought "boy, that is the stupidest idea I've had in a long time" ... which is why I fear HPalm might do it.

I would have much rather seen Palm go to Cisco. AFAIK HP doesn't have a lot of non-MS OS experience in their consumer devices. I wonder how they'll handle this.

iPom?

[rhainman]

Instead of the iPaq, we'll have the iPom.

Re:You may have heard of this thing

[Anders]

Palm has a lot of talented employees, a lot of IP, and a lot of faithful users.

HP has 15.0.0.0/8 and 16.0.0.0/8 so I don't think they need any more IP!

Re:You may have heard of this thing

[AnonymousClown]

There's the right way, the wrong way, and the HP way.