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I am never a big fan of Microsoft.But i think it make a lot of business sense if they buy plam.It is a lot better competing in that market than fight google in
by smallhands 17y ago
I am never a big fan of Microsoft.But i think it make a lot of business sense if they buy plam.It is a lot better competing in that market than fight google in search market.i think the only company that can compete with google in search is facebook!
- billybob 17y agoWebOS is certainly better than Windows Mobile. Microsoft has utterly failed to make a good mobile OS. Maybe they should just buy one. The problem is, they wouldn't have the vision to isolate the solid WebOS development team from the rest of MS. They would tangle it up in departmental meetings and company-wide politics and cross-market product ties ('search your phone emails with Bing Mobile Edition Professional Basic!'). And then, besides being the underdog, it would also suck.
- mustpax 17y agoI think Microsoft is understandably hesitant to buy another creative cellphone design shop after the "synergies" failed to materialize after their acquisition of the maker of the Sidekick, Danger Inc.
- patrickk 17y agoMicrosoft buying Plam may not make a whole load of sense given they have an exciting new mobile platform coming on stream soon. It's a similar play to them buying Yahoo to compete better with Google in the search space. I don't see exactly how Facebook competes in search, all I see it as is an increasingly spammy social network that I could easily live without. Google on the other hand, is indespensible. The very sight of Bing makes me want to punch the monitor (when I'm not using my own PC).