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Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
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)
It could be the door back to USA market. With Maemo don't see any reason for it in Europe and Asia.
So yeah might be a bit too much to pay for just that. Thought USA is more important cell phone market than what it have ever been before and that's one thing hurting Nokia currently.