And Craig might get his wish . . .
Cheers, Don From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ldouglas Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 10:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Palm up for sale? They mention HTC as one of the possibles, then link to an editorial (From Friday!) that says HTC is the best option were Palm to give up the ghost. http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/09/editorial-htc-and-palm-should-get-hitched -and-make-beautiful-ba/ Must say, I loved this line: "Though they aren't currently working together in any capacity (as far as we know), HTC has made Palm's hardware in the past -- a lot of it -- most recently partnering on the Treo Pro. Remember, this was back in the days when Palm devices weren't flimsy pieces of garbage. " ha! Treo Pro FTW but of course the money quote and reason why HTC should buy Palm: "All this other stuff is nice -- yes, HTC and Palm would make a ravishing couple, and we'd sure the marriage of HTC's hardware with Palm's software would blow up the universe in an explosion of awesome -- but whatever, HTC would do just as well do buy Palm, fire everyone, and throw webOS out with the trash, because it would still be getting Palm's enormous patent portfolio. You know, the patent portfolio that seems to have kept Apple at bay for over a year now? Yeah, that one. We still think Google will eventually become involved in the HTC / Apple lawsuit -- we're sure of it, in fact -- but there's no reason for HTC to be caught in the middle of some lame bloodless proxy fight between Steve and Eric when it can just go out and arm itself up independently. Yeah, we all want an HTC-built HD2 running Palm OS on LTE, and we're sure Palm and HTC can make it happen, but we'd bet HTC would be just as happy with a fun new product called 'We dare you to sue us.'" if Palm gets bought by anyone else, WebOS is likely done for. With HTC it stands a fighting chance. On 4/12/10, Alli <[email protected] <mailto:alli%40allibama.net> > wrote: > http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/11/bloomberg-palm-is-up-for-sale/ > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
