Thread: Why would Nokia want Palm?
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2009-11-14 , 16:45
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
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?

The PRE is a lovely device, the UI is a lot of well refined than Maemo, the form factor is almost perfect, but the build quality is incredily low and the quality itself is too variable from device to device.

Nokia can inject his experience and his money on a theoretically well done product. Just as the modern engines from Fiat can help Chrisler whit his stone age technology.
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.
Italians do it better, remember !!!