Palm is pretty much a has-been in the US. The name can't be worth $2 billion. If it's patents Palm owns, what are they and why isn't Palm making big bucks from them now?

As far as any UI goodies (or anything else) in WebOS, what does it do significantly better than Maemo? The 'flip-away cards' thingie? Ya gotta be kiddin' me...so what?

And if Nokia buys Palm, doesn't Palm + Nokia + WebOS + Symbian + Maemo sound like a great recipe for customer and marketing confusion and complexity?

Seems to me Nokia could do a lot more to get into the mid-to-high-end US smartphone market by investing a billion or two into Maemo development and a marketing blitz than buying a sickly Palm.

Buying Chrysler didn't work our well at all for Daimler-Benz. Smart as they are, they still lost almost 100% of the billions they invested. It won't work for Fiat either.