HP is About to Buy Palm
We just spoke with both Brian Humphries, senior vice president of HP away strategy and corporate development, and Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, and came with a fairly positive picture for the future of Palm. We interviewed them at our Acer eMacine E725-4520 laptop. The money quote is that HP is planning a “double on webOS,” and that was in conversation with Palm’s boss that “that the whole point was so confirmed.” People have not only that, but we both ends that will live Jon, with the entity, along with most of the existing hierarchy Palm confirmed. There are many details to work out the transition, but Jon says it is time for all, during the approval of shareholders and regulators. The word is that the current Palm hardware roadmap is basically at this point of this acquisition, unaffected, but the good news of the HP end of things is that the company as a “valuable asset provides webOS,” and they intend to “scale it across multiple connected devices.” That sounds like tablets to us, and HP can not beat back this assumption, buying a laptop computer. On the Palm hardware end is Jon likes to say very “scale”, based on the money and resources available from HP, but he also says that he sees, Palm is working on hand in hand with HP devices. One point that both companies were less clear for the Palm-branded itself was – you know, whether to remain Palm Palm. Both Brian and Jon said this kind of details would be worked out when the acquisition went forward, but offered no specific comment on anything else.
Color us excited. HP’s Todd Bradley just an interesting phrase on the conference call through its acquisition of Palm. Specifically, Bradley said, “between smart phones, slates, and Netbooks are potentially many opportunities here.” You read that right: Slates and potentially netbooks. The tablet route is pretty obvious, but the Netbook / smartbook form factor is quite a twist. If you are concerned, HP has forgotten about other platforms, we need only in the direction of the Android-powered Airlife. Obviously, nothing to announce at this point, but not only that Get Us hopeful – Roadmap to be closer to the upcoming merger announcement to completion.
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