HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion

Wow. I just bought a Pre a month ago. At least they'll continue to be a going concern (and able to provide me with support ;) I was hoping Palm would be able to make it independently somehow, though.

This would be an awesome thing if WebOS ended up on the HP Slate.

Really? They should be grateful that they look to still have jobs. If Apple or Microsoft or Google bought them, a bunch of them would have been laid off.

Not sure what the industry analysis of this will be, but I like the idea of HP having its own platform to present to the world.

It reminds me of the 80s where the was lots of diversity in the platforms. The good news here is WebOS apps are mostly built on web standards so we have the best of both worlds.

The Palm Pre is going to have a fighting chance now. Its a great phone.

Well, this is great.

I love my Apple gear, and I'm going to stay that way as long as they keep making well-designed (minimalistic externally) stuff.

But with the Palm acquisition, HP will be able to do just what Apple is doing. And that's great - integration between software and hardware makes my life (as a user) so much easier.

The main question I have is: will they have any taste? The HP slate has a big white HP logo on the user-facing side, which will keep me from buying one no matter what else it might do. (I don't want to be distracted when I'm using a tablet.)