Hewlett-Packard to Buy Palm
Hewlett Packard’s choice to invest in Palm for $1.2 billion strikes me as a bold but perhaps misguided move to give HP the technologies it has to compete with Apple, Google and Study in Motion (Blackberry) not just with smartphones but possibly iPad-like tablet computers.
About the optimistic side, Palm’s Net OS is an superb operating method for mobile units. It’s clean, well organized and easy to utilize. I was 1 of many reviewers who gave the Pre a typically positive review when it absolutely was released in June, 2009. I liked the way in which it synchronized information more than the air and how it organized windows into “cards.” I also appreciated that — in contrast to the iPhone at the time — it absolutely was a multitasking operating method that lets you operate several programs at a time.
Yet, despite some good reviews, it by no means actually took off. For 1 point, it’s difficult for anybody to have within the way with the iPhone juggernaut. Also, Google started out shipping its Android phones which stole Palm’s cool aspect. Like Palm, Android is multi-tasking and does a excellent work at organizing several applications. Also, it runs on numerous products from numerous carriers. Palm only has two models, both of which operate around the third-place Sprint network it the United States.
Naturally there’s absolutely nothing to stop HP from doing deals with multiple carriers within the U.S. and abroad and building some slicker and much more amazing phones for the Palm OS. What’s more, just as Apple proved by porting its iPhone operating method over towards the iPad, it really is theoretically possible to utilize Net OS for other mobile devices such as tablet PCs. Even though I doubt that Internet OS could perhaps be an iPad killer, it could give HP the software platform it needs to come out with a credible competitor.
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