In my opinion, WebOS was extremely promising, but a couple years late. If HP acquired palm 12 months earlier they would have had better chances. I had a nice brief discussion about the HP TouchPad and WebOs the day the news came out. It was just very clear to me that WebOS and the TouchPad… →
As reported by ZDnet, Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd said HP isn’t going to “spend billions of dollars trying to go into the smartphone business. That doesn’t in any way make any sense. We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business. […] The webOS is one of the two ground-up pieces of software… →
Palm’s Foleo appeared to be a misguided attempt to add value to PalmOS phones. It had an ARM CPU, instant on capability, and ran a custom version of linux. The offering was canceled just shortly before it would have become available. Looking back on this effort now, it has some similarity to the expected Android… →
“Palm’s innovative operating system provides an ideal platform to expand HP’s mobility strategy and create a unique HP experience spanning multiple mobile connected devices” — said Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, HP — “The smartphone market is large, profitable and rapidly growing, and companies that can provide an integrated device and experience… →