2 Years Later, HP’s Botched Palm Acquisition Still Stings

Former Palm CEO and webOS creator Jon Rubinstein is apparently still brooding over Palm’s acquisition by HP. Two years later, he looks back at what HP did with webOS — or rather what it didn’t do — and he is very disappointed, he said in a recent interview. When HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion in 2010, it did indeed look as though webOS was destined for great things. A Web-centric multiplatform operating system, it could have propelled HP to the top ranks of the mobile wars, many believe, if it had continued to cultivate it.

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