Amazon May Purchase Palm/webOS Remnants

[exfileme]

HP insiders are claiming that Amazon is close to signing a deal to purchase the remnants of Palm.

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[totalgenius]

Please yes, bring it to life in more ways, show HP how it should have been done.

 

[Thunderfox]

So I wonder if the 10" Kindle Fire will be a rebadged Touchpad.

Hopefully WebOS lives up to all the hype some day. All it's had so far is false starts and big talk.

 

[chick0n]

HP's ex-CEO is such retard to kill off the WebOS/Palm that they paid so much for.

They could just say "oh due to popular demand, we will re-start the project for all our fans" and other bullcrap.

 

[Guest]

Palm, HP, Amazon... Thirds the charm

 

[livebriand]

Due to amazon fighting against the California online sales tax laws (for retailers out of state), I'm boycotting them. It doesn't matter that they have the best mp3 service and all, they're lost my business for a LOOOOOOOOOONG time!

 

[legacy7955]

If CEO Meg Whitman and HP were smart they would simply revive the webOS and the tablets as well. Most importantly they should keep the PSG and make it autonomous, so it has the ability to move faster and do a better job of meeting the needs of the marketplace. If it is a smaller group, streamline the product offerings (eliminate the cheapest offerings focus on midline and premium lines) and improve the hardware quality (they need to offering up well known quality brand names on internal devices) I think HP PCs can still be a real revenue generator.

At some point HP must admit that moving away from such a huge and important part of their consumer business was simply a "stupid" mistake made by a CEO that was not suited to being at the helm of a huge hardware company. Why is it so hard to admit you're wrong especially if it will help your business. Arrogance usually results in failure.

 

[belardo]

Why would Amazon want to PAY for a license to WebOS which HP has effectively killed?
Who develops for WebOS anymore? Theres hundreds if not thousands of developers for Android OS... maybe a few dozen for WebOS left.

Pretty much any Android app will work with Kindle Fire, that they approve of. They don't have to pay Google anything, pretty much. Its not the OS that is going to sell the Amazon Tablet - its how well they tie content to the devices they sell.

 

[slabbo]

[citation][nom]livebriand[/nom]Due to amazon fighting against the California online sales tax laws (for retailers out of state), I'm boycotting them. It doesn't matter that they have the best mp3 service and all, they're lost my business for a LOOOOOOOOOONG time![/citation]

What? So Amazon follows the US Constitution and you boycott them... /boggles my mind!
Why don't you want people to keep the money they have earned? Feel free to give your money to me and just call it the slabbo tax.

 

[stingray71]

WebOS is dead let it RIP. Amazon and Google should partner up imho, elevate Android to a whole new level.

 

[kronos_cornelius]

I is cheaper for Amazon to fork Android if they want their own thing. Think about it, they already have their expertise in Android.

As for the tax thing. If you willingly give money to an institution, it is called a donation, and people donate money all the time. I don't understand this confusion between a donation, and a tax law. You should not be allowed to opt out of tax money that pays for the infrastructure that made your business successful (Internet, roads, laws, police, fire department, investment in basic research, railroads, education schools and universities, regulations)

The flip-side of the argument is, if you don't like to pay for this ready-built infrastructure (both physical and cultural), you should move somewhere where such infrastructure does not exists, therefore you won't have to maintain it (insert your favorite third world country here) instead of insisting on destroying the infrastructures that we have here.

 

[tuch92]

Remember when Amazon was a bookstore and Google was just a search engine..

 

[LuckyDucky7]

Yup. I remember when Apple wasn't swimming in sueage too and was just an average computer company.

 

[justjc]

[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]I is cheaper for Amazon to fork Android if they want their own thing. Think about it, they already have their expertise in Android.[/citation]

You seem to think that using Android is free, so the only expense is Amazons own tweaking, which is far from the case.

First of all it is starting to show that the Open Handset Alliance forgot about patents when they developed Android, which is now costing the major developers of Android devices quite a lot of cash.

Some of the patent holders will allow the continued production of Android devices, if they get cross patenting agreements and a license fee for each device made, Microsoft is said to only be the first of many making such demands. Others, like Apple, will make sure you don't have any real success without certainty that you will meet them in court.

There is no doubt that Apple will respond to the Fire with legal action and that the thing they stop the device with will be something standard to Android, like the Gallery that gave them a win over Samsung in the Netherlands.

WebOS however seems to have been protected from Apples legal actions, and that is despite the fact that Palm went as far as to let the Pre show up as a Apple device in iTunes. If any other company would have done so they would have payed. So if HP is selling with the patents, at a reasonable price, WebOS could soon prove to be cheaper for Amazon than using Android.

 

[eddieroolz]

I can see Google barring the use of Android for Amazon if this goes through, however.