Wow, amazed that it is worth 1.2 Billion. Not that I dislike Palm, but I suspect for 1 Billion, you could write several WebOS from scratch.
Time is worth a lot of money
HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion
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Re: HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion
#142HP's getting a hell of a deal here. They're now a major player in the mobile devices market, overnight. Palm has current relationships with the three biggest American cell carriers, plus channels in Canada, France, Germany, UK, and Mexico. Palm also has an extensive patent portfolio, many of which Apple is infringing upon. However, the real prize is WebOS. I just got back from Palm's Developer Day, and their technolo…
Is it better than android as well?
Re: HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion
#143HP's getting a hell of a deal here. They're now a major player in the mobile devices market, overnight. Palm has current relationships with the three biggest American cell carriers, plus channels in Canada, France, Germany, UK, and Mexico. Palm also has an extensive patent portfolio, many of which Apple is infringing upon. However, the real prize is WebOS. I just got back from Palm's Developer Day, and their technolo…
"This deal (...) gives HP all the things they need to go head-to-head with Apple." Except for the one thing that makes apple products special: Design.
Yeah, but they've gotten really good at copying that from Apple (HP Envy, HP Slate) so it might not be a problem.
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#144Dear HP: Please don't mess this up. You're a storied pioneer in tech, but you got massive and lost your sense of direction. You're about to acquire something of a microcosm of yourself—a company that pioneered an industry but lost its way as it grew. The difference is that your new acquisition rediscovered its sense of curiosity and turned itself around, too late to save itself, but brilliantly so nonetheless. You ca…
HP is now run by business men, not engineers. If Carla didn't prove this to you, then you are probably never going to get it. The fact is, they don't care about Compaq, DEC, Palm, or even HP. They just want to pull in enough money over the next few years, until they retire. They could be selling Paper cups for all they care about the product, as long as they still get their bonuses.
I don't know if that's really true. Most businesspeople are not just interested in milking salaries. Like most other people, they want to do a good job at the job they've been assigned. Unless you have personal knowledge of the execs at HP, I wouldn't go so far; such a claim is rather personal and depends on a lot of individual factors and I don't think it can really be made en masse about a whole exec team.
Also, there is financial incentive to set the company on an innovative, profit-filled future; many (most?) executives hold lots and lots of stock.
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#145All of you developers, does this excite you as a potential development platform now? Watching past Palm/webOS postings here not gain any traction made me wonder why. Was it the dismal outlook? Was there something wrong with the dev suite Palm offered? Does the hp acquisition change all that for you?
Lack of an app market and developer tool immaturity (incomplete documentation, private methods for complete implementation, non-obvious debugging, etc)
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did BlackBerry start putting those messages in first, before Apple did the iPhone?
Article from Jan 2007 telling you how to remove that message from Blackberry's: http://www.bbhub.com/2007/01/02/how-to-banish-your-sent-from... iPhone came out in June 2007 so .. looks like BB's did it first.
My SE K790 had a "Sent using a Sony Ericsson Phone" message as early as Sep 2006!
Re: HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
HP is now run by business men, not engineers. If Carla didn't prove this to you, then you are probably never going to get it. The fact is, they don't care about Compaq, DEC, Palm, or even HP. They just want to pull in enough money over the next few years, until they retire. They could be selling Paper cups for all they care about the product, as long as they still get their bonuses.
I don't know if that's really true. Most businesspeople are not just interested in milking salaries. Like most other people, they want to do a good job at the job they've been assigned. Unless you have personal knowledge of the execs at HP, I wouldn't go so far; such a claim is rather personal and depends on a lot of individual factors and I don't think it can really be made en masse about a whole exec team. Also, th…
"many (most?) executives hold lots and lots of stock."
All, probably.
Re: HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion
#148All of you developers, does this excite you as a potential development platform now? Watching past Palm/webOS postings here not gain any traction made me wonder why. Was it the dismal outlook? Was there something wrong with the dev suite Palm offered? Does the hp acquisition change all that for you?
Lack of an app market and developer tool immaturity (incomplete documentation, private methods for complete implementation, non-obvious debugging, etc)
Thanks for letting me know. Since there hasn't been much buzz about developing for webOS, I never heard details of whether it's actually any good. I hope hp will fix all that.