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  • HP and Palm – room for another phone OS?

    Posted on April 29, 2010 at 08:21 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    You’ve probably heard that HP has offered to buy Palm for $ 1,200,000,000. Pending regulatory approval and some other hurdles, the deal should be consummated this summer.

    John Fortt at Fortune has the best analysis I’ve seen:

    Today, HP’s small portfolio of iPAQ business smartphones and handhelds runs Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS. Its soon-to-launch HP tablet computer runs Windows 7. Its DreamScreen digital picture frames run a homegrown flavor of Linux, and its netbooks come in both Windows 7 and Linux varieties. And its high-end calculators run another OS. Compare that to Apple, whose iPhones, iPads and iPod touches all run the same OS, and use the same app store.

    So now we have iPhone and Android, both strong contenders. Then there’s Windows Mobile, which always struck me as a me-too, but then I’m biased. Now we have webOS getting the money, if not the recognition, it deserves. Is there room in the mobile market for four OSs?

    Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances…

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