“Rumors circulated late last week on Wall Street that Palm Inc. was putting itself up for sale, which one industry analyst said would be a good idea,” David Haskin reports for Computerworld.
“‘I think it would be a good thing if they were purchased,’ said Gartner Inc. analyst Ken Dulaney. ‘They’re doing well now, but they need more capital to do the things they need to do.’ The rumors late last week drove up the price of Palm stock. Palm spokeswoman Marlene Somsak said late Monday that the company does not comment on rumors and speculation,” Haskin reports.
Haskin reports, “Apple might benefit from acquiring Palm, [Dulaney] said. ‘What they’d get from Palm is carrier knowledge. But they’d have to pick up a whole OS.’ By that, he said he meant that Apple is getting into the phone business with its much-ballyhooed iPhone, based on Apple’s OS X, but some believe that the mobile phone business presents complications that Apple may not have considered.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Some” = Palm et al. Anyone who believes Apple has not considered all “complications” that the mobile phone business presents should send in their Special Olympics entry posthaste.
Haskin continues, “Also, Palm’s Windows Mobile Treos would not necessarily be a good addition, given Apple’s culture and traditional antipathy to Microsoft’s platform.”
MacDailyNews Take: Apple certainly does have a traditional antipathy to tasteless, counterintuitive, mediocre-and-worse products.
Haskin continues, “In any case, Dulaney said that now was a good time for Palm to be looking for a buyer. ‘It would be a good thing,’ he said. ‘They’re profitable and there are some positive things there that won’t be positive for all that long.'”
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