I thought it was most interesting that Apple took on HTC, not Palm. My thoughts are that Apple has probably infringed upon so many of Palm's patents, that the risk is too high for them to take on Palm.
That leaves the question of who benefits the most by purchasing Palm for their Intellectual Property. Would it be better for Apple (in terms of strengthening their legal case), HTC (to strengthen their position), Google (pre-emptively (pun inteded)) or is it better for Palm to wait it out and take advantage of whatever legal inroads Apple makes? This is a fascinating chess game (and I still don't have a phone that is as good for me as my Treo). Rick --- In [email protected], "Jim Griffin" <jgr...@...> 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 ldoug...@... wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A Palm takeover would mean the end of WebOS > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: RickS levolor...@... > > 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&emc=th > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
