“After HP’s news of killing off webOS devices and pondering spinning off their PC business, “the real fun will be watching what happens to the Palm patents,” Eric Jackson writes for Forbes.
“Given how hated HP is now, with a pathetic stock price, they have to sell these patents now to maximize shareholder value (read: save the directors’ necks from the wrath of shareholders),” Jackson writes. “Apple is probably in the driver’s seat to get them.”
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Jackson writes, “Are there still commentators clamoring for Apple to blow their cash pile on a dividend? These last few months of patent war show how wise Apple was to stockpile its cash and wait.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
No; thank you.
Oh yes, please buy it all up and incorporate the best features of webOS into iOS. It would make iOS truly untouchable.
Again, which “best features”?
Please do not tell me that it is about nonsensical simultaneous watching video and editing an electronic mail scenario.
Just like the stupid ad I saw for the PlayBook. It was playing two video’s at once. Why?
They should show the real end of the ad where the owner of the Playbook is so confused as to why the battery is dead after an hour of use.
On topic, I’d say these are some valuable patents to have.
Yeah, playing two videos at the same time would be like demonstrating a Corvette could pull a mobile home… but why would you?
— ‘Oh yes, please buy it all up and incorporate the best features of webOS into iOS. It would make iOS truly untouchable.’
Like iOS isn’t already? 😉
MEEELLIONS of HEETS!!!
“Oh yes, please buy it all up and incorporate the best features of webOS into iOS. It would make iOS truly untouchable.”
Shouldn’t that be “…truly touchable.” 🙂
Buy it up for pennies on the dollar so a rival tech company can’t get there hands on it. Keep the IP in California.
Great idea!
Yeah buy it and then hand the fandroids their ass in court.
It’d be a service to mankind.
Buh bye! Good riddance you copy cat. 😉
Considering that Palm was one of the founders and significant player in the PDA space (think – proto-iPhone!), they should have a number of patents still alive that could be quite useful.
Agree with the observation that the newer patents can be bought up as a means of denying them to a competitor, but I haven’t seen AAPL use that tactic. I think AAPL would even be unphased if GOOG acquired them and incorporated them into Android. Legit competitors don’t faze them (legitimacy is what the WebOS patents would lend Android), but one misappropriating their stuff gets them riled.
Doesn’t Apple already have patents from the Newton – the first PDA – that supersede the Palm Patents?
the APPLE NEWTON pre-dates PALM – ANON
Have you guys seen this? Hilarious!
ROFL. Luv it
Perfect. Especially the part about it only being a month old.
folks WebOS surfs much better than IOS. I am playing with a demo unit now and it feels better than my gen 1 iPad. Angry birds plays a lot better on the Tpad than on the iPad. There must be a lot under the WebOS hood that Apple could use or deny to others. Particularly if WebOS runs even faster on an iPad than a T pad. I am a Mac fan but the truth is the truth. I was ( still am) surprised by what I found.
Can I have whatever it is you’re smoking??!!
Bobp, please elaborate how Angry birds plays better on the WebOS. Are the birds angrier?
🙂 touché
In webOS, Angry Birds isn’t called that at all. It’s called Pissed Off Chicken Curry, as in Apple’s made mincemeat out of the TouchPad and turned it into chicken curry.
Bobp,
Being unfamiliar with WebOS, can you still use the touchpad if you are not connected to the internet? How much can you do?
Thanks
always suspicious when a post includes…”‘I”m really a mac fan…but….”
and in this case an added note of sincerity. (cue the Truth music theme)…”the truth is the truth”
So if you wanted to share an insight about a product you think has some superior features, how would you go about introducing it to this particular audience?
“These last few months of patent war show how wise Apple was to stockpile its cash and wait.”
Not to mention plunking down billions at a time to secure crucial supply chains.
Over on ‘The Register’ they are reporting that HP’s tablet did even worse than the 10% sell through of Best Buy outside of USA.
In the UK they sold 100 tablets and 700 total in the whole of Europe.
That’s not 100,000 that’s 100.
The European Central Bank bought up the entire TouchPad supply in Europe to throw at the rioting Greeks. As in “Throw us a bone, Guv.”
Interesting how a man like Steve Jobs, whose lifetime is obviously both precious and coming to an end in the foreseeable future, still has so much more patience than all his competitors.
I am truly amazed and impressed.
I wonder what patents are included… maybe there are some that are worth getting. We certainly don’t know the full extent since we consumers are at the bottom of the insider knowledge pool.
It would be pretty fun if, after all these years, Apple just bought back palm for a pittance, for a few patents
It’s worth considering that H-P was the only PC manufacturer not designing desktop machines to fit the decor of double-wide trailers. If you don’t have a government Purchase Order, you have to send pictures of your mullet to order a Dell.
WebOS – no Apple does not need to acquire anything to do with this OS. SAVE YOUR MONEY APPLE!!!