HP tried to sell Palm for $1.2 billion before open sourcing WebOS

0. phoneArena posted on 28 Dec 2011, 13:59

Before choosing to open source WebOS, HP tried to sell Palm to Facebook for $1.2 billion dollars, according to a new report...

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1. brenner182 posted on 28 Dec 2011, 14:23 2

lol palm

2. LewsTherin006 posted on 28 Dec 2011, 14:38 11

HP seems to be doing a good job of killing itself. It also seems to be run by monkeys.

5. Droid_X_Doug posted on 28 Dec 2011, 14:59 0

True that. I am still trying to understand why Facebook would be interested in webOS. (Dunno) Regardless, going in asking $1.2 Billion is a plan to fail, which it did.

6. Lucas777 posted on 28 Dec 2011, 15:09 0

give meg whitman a chance to actually turn the company around... i doubt this happened while she was in charge

3. palmguy posted on 28 Dec 2011, 14:49 0

Paaaaaaaalm!

4. droiddomination posted on 28 Dec 2011, 14:57 0

paaaaaaalm" stupid. anyways, at least they aren't run by the idiots over at blackberry. i swear, they are intentionally destroying that company! what board would allow those morons to steer their ship into a coral reef? hp at least has a chance with whitman and their pc dept. future rev from open sourcing palm software.

7. downphoenix posted on 28 Dec 2011, 15:13 0

I wondered that as well, but the Co-CEOs own a huge chunk of RIM. If any attempt at ousting them has been made, it probably did not fare well as Im sure they have stockholding friends backing them up.

RIM at least has the balls to continue to push the market, the Playbook wasn't a success but RIM isn't going to just drop the tablet market as Apple has proven it is a profitable market, and that there is more room than just for Apple, its just a matter of convincing the consumer and business clients of that.

8. snowgator posted on 28 Dec 2011, 15:16 0

Don't worry- it will be cheaper soon. No way WeBOS gets a chance at open sourcing.

9. HTCiscool posted on 28 Dec 2011, 15:29 1

Ok, it isn't a bad idea to sell the OS, but to sell the OS at the same price as they bought it for is ridiculously idiotic. They don't really need 1.2 billion, they're the largest PC maker and they get plenty of revenue from their other products, most namely, printers. Leo was no good, I just hope Megan has some sense...

You know, I wonder what phone CEOs of PC companies use lol

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