HP CEO Remarks on Palm Plans

Long-term, I think HP is hell-bent on putting WebOS into tablets, netbooks, and printers (one-touch icon on an HP Printer's front touch screen to have new consumables shipped straight to your door!)

That said, that probably wasn't the best thing to say at this particular time. Smartphones are still the "hot" thing as we begin the 4G transition. For the forseeable future at least, HP needs to at least keep up appearances that they are in it. I wonder how far along the pre-acquisition Palm had their roadmap plotted out? Probably mid-late 2011 at most?
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E-T

Time to decide: buy a spare Centro or give up on Palm's beautiful OS.

HP would be smart to spin off the name to another group for $$$ after they have milked the current roadmap of any remaining cash flow.

What a beautiful OS too. A shame that HP will merge it into the beauracracy and it's beauty will slowly disappear into oblivion. What a shame. :-(
Pat Horne

When Studebaker stopped making cars, its components were used for other transportation technologies in the following decades. With webOS going into a bunch of HP products, the transition is hauntingly familiar.

Five to fifteen years from now, we will look at the Pre as a "too much too soon" product. Ironically the name "Pre" fits the design way more than it was intended to be. When all your other current smart phones look dated, the next generation will still see a Pre as a "new" looking device.

Hold on to those Pre's! They may be worth something on Antiques Roadshow in a decade or so.

Just kidding.
Have a nice day!
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>>>JavaScript-based apps
- isn't that Android too?

>>>pond stone-like design
- god no!

>>>supplementary LEDs enhancing the display screen
- Pffft!

>>>the non-linear slide keyboard
- huge design mistake

>>>and the cloud sync feature
- which everyone else has added or is adding and which will stab everybody who trusts it in the back one day.

>>>are brilliant concepts rushed to a market that couldn't appreciate nor understand it.
- Um, no.

I think the way to do this right would be to have an option for the end user to set up their own private sync server. Those that couldn't care about security can use Palm's cloud, but the ones that want a more secure server could have a small device that acted like the sync server. Think Palm Desktop over the internet or a BES server except cheaper. Then all the phone needs to know is what the current IP address is... sort of the way Sling Media had it with their Sling Service. HPalm could have a server that would just keep track of IP addresses for each sync server + phone combination using a unique key. Or alternatively enable the device to sync with a DNS resolvable IP address using DynDNS or something like that.

E-T

I mean, why in the would was there not a webOS equivalent of the Palm TX? It was a well selling and simple to use device. You could "cloud it up" via a WiFi connection and no need for a carrier license. The Apple iPod Touch shows that you can yank out the cell phone and make a great secondary market.

My take is that Palm in fact is going back to its roots as a mobile embedded systems company with the faddish smart phone crap.

No, we want it in the cloud where some ten-year-old Chinese haXXor can steal it for the glory of the Motherland and future blackmailing of Americans.

You eejit!

I cannot wait for it to happen to you!!