Does HP + Palm = Facepalm?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 29, 2010 @01:25AM 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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Smartphones for sure by SplicerNYC · 2010-04-29 01:31 · Score: 1, Troll

A ready-built entry into the market. Just dump the Palm OS, bring in Android and there you have it.
Re:No. by TheGreek · 2010-04-29 01:43 · Score: 0, Troll

What's going to be important is what you can plug into your phone (monitor, keyboard, printer, flash drive, etc. )
Yes.
When I'm in the market for a mobile phone, the first and last thing I look at is what printers it supports.
Don't be a moron.