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It's possibly one of the most terrible decisions I think I've heard in a long time. Not using what most people know as the most fluent, user friendly and well respected smart phone UI's to sell smart phones is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. They don't need to spend billions of dollars entering the smart-phone market, they JUST spent 1.2 Billion on a company that is already IN the smart phone market in a big way!! What is the downside of allowing Palm to work autonimously as the smart phone division while HP leverages WebOS on other products and then makes them interactive. Can you imagin how well they would do if they could take every office that had HP Printers and sold enterprise smartphone solutions with WebOS that could manipulate documents and print them directly from the phone. The two would become inherent like selling cereal and milk. One would very naturally leverage off the other and cause sales to happen. It's a no brainer.
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