Perhaps this suggests that people were looking at HP's purchase of Palm in the wrong way. HP are the biggest computer manufacturer in the world. While I'm sure

Perhaps this suggests that people were looking at HP's purchase of Palm in the wrong way. HP are the biggest computer manufacturer in the world. While I'm sure entering the phone market is a bonus to them, if they think that the iPad is a serious threat to their laptop business, buying Palm in order to be able to speed up manufacture of an iPad competitor makes perfect sense.