Wow...bummer...kinda' gloomy for Palm and WebOS... I know personally I'd feel like I'd be taking steps backward if I only had a choice between iPhone and Android OS devices.
Ugh... :-( Jim (Via Palm Pre) On Mar 3, 2010 10:35 AM, Craig Froehle <[email protected]> wrote: No, that's unrealistic. The market has more platforms than it can sustain right now, and nobody is going to buy Palm for webOS. Rather, they'd buy Palm for their patent portfolio and, maybe, _parts_ of webOS that work much better than their current code. Nokia is behind Symbian like Google is Android, so they're not "without" an OS. Palm is the smallest player in this space by a factor of 10 or more (market cap'n) and will probably be the first to go. Given the value of their IP holdings, they'll be bought rather than go belly up. But either way, yes, I'm confident that would be the end of webOS. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Jim Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe not... I would think that it would depend on who took them over. If Apple or Google...perhaps yes...but Nokia or some other big players without an OS, who see the superiority and potential of WebOS...may just want to spend the $ to fund and further develop it. > > Also, to some companies, it might be cheaper to buy Palm and WebOS and their patents rather than spend more $ developing their own new OS. > > Jim > (Via Palm Pre) > On Mar 3, 2010 9:20 AM, Ldouglas &lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote: > > > &nbsp; > > > > > > > > > > > A Palm takeover would mean the end of WebOS > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: RickS &lt;[email protected]&gt; > > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:44 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Treo] Re: Agonizing decision > > > > I saw this article in the NY Times yesterday. I wonder if Palm's patents makes Palm a more important takeover target for both Apple and Google, in view of the litigation. > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/technology/03patent.html?th&amp;emc=th > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
