Google Was Interested in Palm – Because of Apple
Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News
Business Insider wrote an article recently about the talks that led to HP ultimately buying Palm. Apparently, Google was a part of these talks, mostly because they thought Apple was in the bidding – even though Google wasn’t sure if that was the case or not. Surprised Apple was interested? They likely were because of their desire to compete with RIM’s more business-attuned customers.
Although Palm was struggling financially at the hands of both Android and the iOS, they have some interesting technology to offer the market. Now that HP owns them, I would expect to see some innovative products come from the Palm brand, since the acquisition was structured so that Palm is a division of HP.
Just don’t expect a Chrome OS or Android tablet anytime soon from HP, it looks like they have their hands full trying to make some money off of Palm’s own cloud-oriented operating system called WebOS.
