Apple Buying Palm?

[mr_matalino]

will never happen. palm is junk

 

[shrimpdesign]

I disagree ---- few companies have been able to replicate what Handspring did

HP has failed, Palm failed, and other are failing ---- RIM can do it, but it lacks touchscreen and multimedia

Handpsring was bought out SOLELY for its engineering designs behind the Treo --- only Palm has ownership over this engineering model, and that's why they are considered a hot commodity

Yeah, but we're not talking about HP or anyother crap electronics company. We're talking about Apple. Look at the nano. That thing is friggin small.

You don't think that Apple can out-do Palm with a PDA with all it's years of beautiful industrial design?! I mean, c'mon, that might work on HP, but not Apple. Apple excells with cramming the coolest tech into the coolest case.

 

[mpw]

..You don't think that Apple can out-do Palm with a PDA with all it's years of beautiful industrial design?! I mean, c'mon, that might work on HP, but not Apple. Apple excells with cramming the coolest tech into the coolest case.

There's not a lot more needs doing with the Palm T|X hardware other than the addition of telephony and more battery capacity which is easily 'doable'.

An Palm/Apple (Papple?) tie up with Apple handling the software (building on Palm's good OS, which was itself I believe based on the Newton's) in a very similar form factor to the T|X but in a PowerBook alloy finish would sell a million unit's in the first year if priced at under $450.

 

[ipacmm]

I like the idea. It would put Apple on an equal footing in regards to PDA's and PDA/Cellphones. And with Apple's design insight - they may be able to giveus something better than M$...

I agree, I also like the idea of Apple buying Palm because they would make the Treo into an even better PDA/Phone.

 

[shrimpdesign]

There's not a lot more needs doing with the Palm T|X hardware other than the addition of telephony and more battery capacity which is easily 'doable'.

An Palm/Apple (Papple?) tie up with Apple handling the software (building on Palm's good OS, which was itself I believe based on the Newton's) in a very similar form factor to the T|X but in a PowerBook alloy finish would sell a million unit's in the first year if priced at under $450.

1. I never said that Palm didn't make good PDAs. I was recently thinking of getting a T|X myself, but I've decided that my new iMac need more RAM first. I might get one someday for handheld wi-fi, but I still think that Apple can out-do Palm at any industrial design they can concoct.

2.If Apple bought Palm, they would still need to licence the OS from Access (company who bought PalmSource). And then they would have a handheld with a different OS look and feel from OS X and iPod OS. Alternatively they could hack the Palm OS to look like OS X, but waht about the feel? Apple doesn't want Palm OS. These rumors about buying Palm aren't rumors at all, they're silly day dreams. Apple could kick Palm's &$$ making a PDA or smartphone.

Apple doesn't want to complicate things. They'd build it from the ground-up in house. Then it would look and feel like OS X mini. As they say "Apple makes the whole gadget." They don't need Palm.

 

[pimentoLoaf]

If Apple buys Palm maybe Jobs will be able to design a phone that meets his extremely high standards that is also extremely easy to use.

I read an article recently that claimed Jobs is so picky about design, he often rejects 99% of the phone designs out there, due to their difficult interfaces.