Palm Inc., goes up for sale

primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
edited April 2010 in Science & Tech
Palm Inc., goes up for sale

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  • Jamie Favreau
    edited April 2010
    My Dad actually owns a few Palm devices. I am not sure if it is his age group.
  • mickermicker Plymouth, MI
    edited April 2010
    Are you calling me old Jamie? I've got a Palm currently, and have owned quite a few since they were still made by 3com.

    3com? Oh god, I guess I am old.

    Regardless, the WiFi hotspot feature on their latest phones is very cool and hopefully their buyer uses that feature on more phones.
  • miragemirage
    edited April 2010
    Sad. They had started the handheld revolution. But they were too slow moving forward and they had so many missteps. I don't see any value in that company now other than their IP and maybe (with a big question mark) WebOS. I will always keep my Tungsten and Pilot.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2010
    Palm has a vast and lucrative patent portfolio, a phenomenal OS packed with great ideas and brilliant software engineers. I sincerely hope Google acquires them, so all that brilliance makes its way into the Android kernel. I also hope Google acquires them because it would be a pretty righteous distraction for Apple in pursuing HTC; it would make Google the #1 target, rather than handset makers.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited April 2010
    How does this effect the resale value of my Palm Zire?
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited April 2010
    You now have to pay people $20 to take your Zire.
  • miragemirage
    edited April 2010
    Thrax wrote:
    I sincerely hope Google acquires them

    :thumbup
  • mickermicker Plymouth, MI
    edited April 2010
    I just realized the most important question in this whole thing...

    Who's going to own BeOS now?
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited April 2010
    micker wrote:
    I just realized the most important question in this whole thing...

    Who's going to own BeOS now?

    I think Graffiti 2 is a more important property.
  • mickermicker Plymouth, MI
    edited April 2010
    I've gotta go with BeOS on this one. Next to Irix it was my favorite OS of all time. Like Irix I would still be running it if the apps I needed were still developed for it.
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