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What if their plan is to buy the right to ship software updates to the million TouchPad owners? On the simple end, they could port Kindle, MP3, Prime Video, et
by wanorris 15y ago
What if their plan is to buy the right to ship software updates to the million TouchPad owners?
On the simple end, they could port Kindle, MP3, Prime Video, etc., and make them available as part of of a firmware update.
If they really want to, though, they could even make an "official" upgrade to Amazon's fork of Android, with the Appstore and UI that the Fire has (more precisely, the one from the 10" Fire variant they're working on).
So that gets them: (1) patents they need, (2) a bunch of in-house expertise in the full tablet hardware and software stack, (3) a bunch of customers to sell their content to and convert to their ecosystem.
That pretty much puts every asset Palm has to use except for WebOS itself, and as someone posted earlier, even that might be useful as a hedge against Google's handling of Android.