Follow-up: HP buys Palm! (to duel RIM?)
Old news by now, but I couldn’t make the post earlier yesterday. It’s great news for Palm, and most especially the Palm community. While my earlier opining that RIM/Blackberry should buy Palm was wrong, the dynamic isn’t far off. ZDNet probably has the best analysis (and here) of the acquisition, and one of their observations is that HP is more likely to use webOS as a further wedge into the enterprise against RIM, than in to the consumer space against Apple. That makes alot of sense as HP has very strong channel partnerships there, and already has the practice of bundling their (now lame) iPaq smartphones with enterprise hardware deals.
Now … maybe we’ll see a tablet running webOS in the future. Would make a great platform for mobile ad hoc collaboration ;-)
Cheers,
Eric
