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Apple, RIM, Google All Bid On Palm

Posted by timothy on from the face-palm-apple dept.

imamac writes "It seems HP was only one of many bidders for the struggling Palm. The others included Apple, RIM and even Google. You may now commence speculation on why the various companies wanted Palm."

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  1. Re:It seems to me by Meshach · · Score: 3, Informative

    Agreed it seems pretty obvious. At least not "really, really weird at best" like the article says. A more reliable source says it better.

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  2. Re:BeOS by jaak · · Score: 4, Informative

    BeOS was sold when Palm spun off PalmSource, which is now owned by Access http://www.access-company.com/

  3. Be Inc included by Henriok · · Score: 5, Informative

    It would have been an epic irony if Apple had bought Palm and gotten the remnants of Be Inc with it. I love the tech industry! I made a graph over the turbulent history of Palm, sorting out the finer details in the timeline. For those of you that haven't payed attention the last 20 years. http://alltommac.se/files/2010/04/palm-history-graph.png

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  4. Re:Isn't it obvious? by IntlHarvester · · Score: 4, Informative

    To explain the joke, Palm got started selling its Graffiti software for Newton to replace Apple's dismal handmall reaquisition.

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  5. Re:Has anyone ever used the WebOS? by billhuey · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, iPhone & Android fanboys just don't know.

    However WebOS has its fair share of nasty bugs that include a system-wide memory that forces you to reboot at some point. The messaging app is barebones and need notifications for when a user comes online.

    The cloud aware contact integration is pretty much out of this world at this point. I was able to add a simple Jabber protocol and it was able to 'join' folks I know against all existing contacts intelligently.

    The browser could be better as well, fewer bugs. Overclocked kernels running at 720mhz with 24M compcache seems to be the magic sweet spot now for the original Sprint device.

    A lot of folks in the homebrew community is pretty hardcore about hacking this device.