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Man, that is a big pile of cash. It hardly seems worth it, but if HP wanted to be a player in the mobile space now they are. But Palm has a (very long and sto
by thought_alarm 17y ago
Man, that is a big pile of cash. It hardly seems worth it, but if HP wanted to be a player in the mobile space now they are.
But Palm has a (very long and storied) software problem, not a hardware problem. HP doesn't have much of a reputation in consumer-grade OS software development so I'm not sure how they will be able succeed where Palm failed.
- ashishbharthi 17y agoSoftware problem? Though Palm Pre and Pixi didnt sell as expected, Palm's WebOS has received pretty decent feedback from all over.
- thought_alarm 17y agoThey spent an eternity trying to develop a successor to the old Palm OS, then they abruptly threw it all away and created WebOS by sticking WebKit on top of a Linux kernel. As a result, WebOS has been plagued with performance and reliability problems that they're still trying to address, and that shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with system software development. They've also had a lot of trouble getting 3rd-party development off the ground.