Can anyone give me a good reason why Nokia would even consider buying Palm? Palm has nothing to offer but large debts, continuing losses, a has-been name, a very small market share and not-great hardware only offered on Sprint, a nearly dead provider.

Oh, and WebOS, which is generally fairly good, yes, but there's not many apps or developer interest for it. And Nokia has both Symbian and Maemo already. I can't think of anything significant that WebOS offers that Maemo doesn't or couldn't easily do. Far as I can tell, Maemo should have better possibilities.

So what's the value Palm offers to Nokia that would make them even consider a $2 billion investment? I just don't get it...

http://www.reuters.com/article/busin...5AC4QV20091113

(Thanks to nuknuk for that link)