Target to Carry iPhone – Pre-empting HP’s Distribution Prowess?

It’s probably premature to consider that Apple considers HP-Palm as a formidable future competitor, but certainly iPhone feels the heat from Android at least. Consider their latest move—selling the iPhone 4 and 3G at Target stores across the country. Note that while I have nothing whatsoever against Target, it’s not really the sort of place that one expects Apple to push its products. Unless, of course, Apple...

Apple Sues Motorola – Will Palm be Next?

One of the more interesting developments in the smartphone industry has been Apple’s patent lawsuits against HTC and now Motorola over a number smartphone technologies. The latest, against Motorola for a number of devices including the entire Droid line, is for a variety of Apple patents including some around touchscreens. PC World reports on the lawsuits: Apple filed two lawsuits against Motorola and Motorola...

Why HP Hates Apple

In the middle of a nice article on HP, Todd Bradley, and the Palm Pre 2, ConceivablyTech provides a nice little synopsis of the story behind one of Steve Jobs’s more dishonest acts. It goes a little (or a lot) like this: It took me a number of years to run down the details of one of the most brilliant moves Steve Jobs made and one of the most foolish ones that HP made. Few know that HP actually had the best chance...

Palm Staying Out of the Mobile Patent War (So Far)

A big hat tip to webOS developer and Twitter user @acarback, but here’s an interesting chart showing the various mobile lawsuits currently underway, from The Guardian: You’ll notice that Palm is conspicuously missing from this chart, and so either Palm’s presence is too small to induce anyone to sue Palm, or they’ve done a miraculous job of using technologies that keep them above the fray. Certainly, webOS...