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Originally Posted by markbot
Instead of buying palm for $1.2B, imagine if they gave me that money. I would be so damn happy. I sure as hell wouldn't waste it. No, seriously....they could have done sooo many better things with that money....like buying all the art of da vinci, van gogh, etc...and putting them like in the lobby of the headquarters so employees can enjoy them! but no, they bought palm!? seriously?! pathetic.
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Palm always had great software. Remember the Palm Pilot, Palm 3, Tungsten, etc? These devices defined the PDA industry which later evolved into the smartphone industry. They spent a lot of effort on usability and efficiency. They were one of the first devices with a touch screen, they made Grafiti mainstream, just navigating through menus and finding contacts were a lot more efficient on their products when compared to other products of the time. Palm devices lost their edge when they moved to the mobile Windows platform.
I don't think it was a pathetic purchase, I think the pathetic move was to not give WebOS a fighting chance before their high profile abandonment.