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Does HP + Palm = Facepalm?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sum-less-than-whole dept.

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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  1. HP is trying to compete with Acer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    HP competitor Acer (number 2 in notebooks worldwide behind HP) is coming out with a line of smartphones of its own, and it needs this purchase to leapfrog them.

  2. Re:You may have heard of this thing by cryfreedomlove · · Score: 4, Informative

    Palm has a lot of talented employees, .

    Not anymore they don't. I'm a hiring manager in Silicon Valley and I can tell you that any Palm engineer with sense has been interviewing and most have gotten away already.

  3. Re:My take by wbo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Be's IP bought by PalmSource and not by Palm Inc? Keep in mind that PalmSource and Palm Inc. are not the same company (although they worked closely together.) That would mean that Be's IP is currently owned by Access.

    I remember PalmSource using some things from Be in PalmOS 6 - which unfortunately never got used in any devices before Access bought them.