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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. Smartphones for sure by SplicerNYC · · Score: 1, Troll

    A ready-built entry into the market. Just dump the Palm OS, bring in Android and there you have it.

  2. Re:No. by TheGreek · · 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.

  3. Re:I like it because it's crazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You've obviously biased against HP.

    HP will continue to shit on companies like Dell; in the past, in the present, and into the future.

    I don't think anyone here is going to argue that Dell makes a better server, workstation, or laptop of various styles than HP.

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

    >> Android, things aren't pretty. Vanilla Android isn't cutting it.

    Oh. I can write anything here to make it a fact? Let me try - you are a dick.