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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by recoiledsnake on Thursday August 18, 2011 @03:49PM (#2900775)
Who would buy it? HTC or Samsung? Nokia? The OEMs are worse at making OSes and dev ecosystems than even HP which has experience making a UNIX based OS. And it's not as if buying WebOS will stop the patent attacks, in fact, it may increase them. They would simply be better off with Android/Windows 8 for tablets

As Nokia's CEO said, it's a battle of ecosystems now, not devices anymore. Maybe RIM's next, either for a takeover, or a failure.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by robterrell on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:05PM (#2901082)
Who would buy it? How about the bidder who lost out, Apple?

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-rim-google-hp-palm-2010...

One year later, I'm sure whatever it was Apple saw in Palm (patents, according to the above article) is still there.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by nl on Thursday August 18, 2011 @08:03PM (#2901660)
Oh please....

An unnamed source claimed something that the article itself says there's a bunch of problems with this idea and we are supposed to believe it? It was more likely a rumour that someone at Palm was putting around to try and push the price up, and the "source" believed it.

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