How Will HP Define Palm’s Success?

I was thinking a bit about how HP will define success relative to the Palm acquisition. That is, when they’re asked in a few years whether their $1.2 billion investment (let’s say, $2 billion before Palm starts generating meaningful revenue) was worth it and whether acquiring Palm was the right strategic move, what do HP execs want to be able to say? Here’s what I think: they’ll want to be...

Peter Skillman–Designer of the Pre—Leaves HP and Palm

Techcrunch broke the news today that Peter Skillman, the man in charge of the Palm Pre’s design, has left the company. Of all the defections since the announcement of the Palm acquisition, this one is both the most confusing and the most concerning. Simply put, one has to wonder why Skillman would leave given HP’s strongly stated commitment to the success of Palm and webOS. The obvious question: does his leaving...

More From HP’s Rahul Sood

Rahul Sood, CTO of HP’s Gaming Business, had some more to say about the Palm acquisition the other day (can’t believe I missed it): The deal is closed, rest assured you will see WebOS live across a number of new devices, I just can’t wait to get my hands on some of the cool new stuff. No more covert BS, you will likely see more news around about HP and Palm, stay tuned and keep searching Google Sounds...

A Hint Into HP’s Position on webOS Community Development

Some folks have been worried, and perhaps rightly so, that HP might squelch the open “hacker” nature of the webOS “homebrew” development community. After all, HP is a much larger company than Palm with seemingly more corporate interests and a much larger base of customers to support. Given the general distrust of large corporations (which this blog does not share, incidentally), some have assumed that HP...

Vidcast with Palm and HP’s CTO Phil McKinney

If you’ve had any doubts about how serious HP is about making Palm and webOS successful in smartphones and everywhere else, and about the incredible resources HP brings to the table, then take a few minutes and watch this video. Seriously, just watch it.   NEW VIDCAST: A Message to the Palm Developer Community from HP PC on...