Written by brian_houghton on Monday, April 12, 2010

QOTD: Should Palm Be Bought For It’s Intellectual Property and Patents, or for WebOS and Continuing the Pre?


Well, folks, it happened.  Palm has put themselves up for sale, as reported by Shaun at PDA-247 and just about everyone else with an eye on the company.  So, with Palm and WebOS being what it is, what should a company buy it for:

- It’s patents and intellectual property, that could be used by some already established phone makers, to further their own portfolio?

OR

- To continue with the development of WebOS and phones running it?

I’m afraid I can’t weigh in until I sleep on it… but we’d love to hear your thoughts on this!  Hit the comments and let us know what you think.

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Biggnaa20
Apr 13, 2010

I really hope webOS stays around, even if it’s used as a skin for another OS. It is easily the most elegant way to switch applications on a phone. If this sort of ease of use could be brought to use with the more robust APIs of other operating systems, it would be a match made in heaven.

nb


brian_houghton
Apr 13, 2010

Good point. Although I’ve never used WebOS, I’ve heard nothing but good about the OS itself. I think the main issue has resided with Palm, their lack of advertising and build quality. I’d like to see HTC pick them up, although I saw earlier today where Cisco was considering a bid!


dgoldring
Apr 14, 2010

I agree, Brian. I loved webs on the palm pre. Palm just did a terrible job with implementation. I think it would be awesome if HTC bought palm and made webs into the HTC operating system. They could probably get much better market penetration than palm did.


Anton
Apr 15, 2010

Marry webOS with Nexus One (replacing virtual buttons with notification area btw) and it’s a killer.

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