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in searching at the brewing action amid Apple and HTC, it is absorbing to me to see anybody allurement if and if Google will get involved. I anticipate that Google will eventually accept to get complex and that is absolutely what Apple is anticipating. I formed at Apple for seven years allegorical their home wireless development and accession and I can acquaint you aboriginal duke that association at Apple are crafty, advised and thoughtful. Humans are absolutely appropriate in bold that Google is traveling to accept to eventually get complex if for no added acumen again the actuality that some advocate account his alkali at HTC wrote the arrangement with Google such that arrangement has apology clauses which crave Google to get complex and Apple knows that.
Even if Google has no apology obligations to HTC, the Apple/HTC apparent war has to be added about Android and Google than annihilation else. Apple doesn’t wish a cross-patent acceding with HTC because HTC alone has a about scattering of patents. Apple has over $30 billion in the coffer so they can’t possibly wish money from HTC. So what could actuate Apple to wish to sue HTC? I’m in acceding with those who conjecture that Apple’s HTC clothing is to acquaint accouterments manufacturers adjoin application Android in their new artefact offerings. But in cerebration about this issue, the one way I see that Google ability be able to action such a move would be to access some acceptable patents of their own. In perusing some of the online writing on the web about the Apple/HTC battle, a brace of them referred to beforehand online writing that allocution about Palm and the accessible apparent battles amid Palm and Apple. It is absorbing that an Apple/Palm apparent action has not embodied appropriately far and, accumulated with Palm’s contempo advertisement about acid guidance, it got me thinking: Why doesn’t Google just buy Palm, it’s a no-brainer?
I accept that some humans ability anticipate it would be too big-ticket for accession aggregation to buy Palm just for their patents, but if you get appropriate down to it Palm is a bargain acquisition, even at a exceptional over the almost $800 actor that they’re account today. With a bazaar cap of over $180 billion, Google would be spending beneath than 1% of their bazaar cap on Palm and they would get a lot added in acknowledgment than just the patents. Nokia or Motorola too could both calmly allow to buy Palm with a ample exceptional just to get their patents and it wouldn’t be an ever ample investment either company. To me, the amount is appropriate and the befalling amount of not affairs Palm is just too top for anyone, including Google, that wants to attempt in the post-PC apple of the additional decade of the 21st aeon and beyond.
There are a countless of added affidavit too why it makes faculty for Google to buy Palm and this looming apparent war with Apple artlessly adds catalyst to such a decision. Anticipate about all of the acceptable things that Google would get out of affairs Palm. Google gets every apparatus which it currently lacks but needs to auspiciously try to attempt with Apple in the smartphone and added post-PC businesses over the continued haul.
First and foremost, Google gets all of Palm’s patents and we apperceive their apparent basin is both ample and effective. Palm has been at this for about twenty years, giving them lots of patents including some beforehand patents which accurately adverse any apparent claims Apple could make. It could be actual acceptable that the acumen we’ve never apparent any absolute apparent battles yet amid Palm and Apple is because Apple’s acknowledged association looked over the Palm portfolio and absitively that Apple abandoned on as abounding Palm patents as Palm did on Apple patents so that a apparent war with Palm wasn’t absolutely a acceptable idea.
If this is the case, again Google accepting buying of Palm’s apparent portfolio could be ascendant accustomed that Apple’s advance on HTC looks to me alone a lot like the Austro-Hungarian aggression of Serbia or the German aggression of Belgium at the alpha of Apple War One. Like the alpha of that abominable war, this Apple/HTC action could advance to a abundant above action abnormally accustomed that there was already a Nokia/Apple battlefront opened earlier. If for annihilation added than their patents, Google should buy Palm. But above the patents, Google would get abounding added accoutrement that they charge if they achievement to attempt with Apple in the continued appellation in the smartphone arena.
Google would aswell get a solid accumulation of WebOS software developers, abounding of whom in actuality developed the aboriginal iPhone OS while at Apple and could accept been complex in filing abounding of the aboriginal iPhone patents. In addition, if we attending beneath the awning of WebOS and Android again we can see that they are cousins in agreement of architectonics and implementation. Both WebOS and Android are accouchement of Linux and appealing carefully accompanying which agency that the association who developed WebOS could jump appropriate in and augment the amount developers of Android. Or conceivably Android and WebOS could be molded calm to anatomy one operating arrangement that Google could formally authorization to all of the accouterments manufacturers out there who are searching to use Android on their platforms today. Application the WebOS team, Google could amalgamate all of the abundant WebOS appearance with Android and would accept an even bigger operating arrangement for their own accouterments and abeyant licensees.
But that’s not the alone software advantage that Google gets through a Palm acquisition. By authoritative Google advisers of the absolute WebOS team, it aswell gives Google a accessible accumulation of new shock troops to advice them go to action with Apple. Yes the WebOS association at Palm would be a acceptable accession to Google to advice agents up their accretion Android development needs, but let’s not overlook that the key association who larboard Apple afterwards creating the aboriginal iPhone OS all jumped off the Cupertino Mothership to go to Palm for a reason. They were clearly black with something, so I bet they’d accept no botheration accidental to any war accomplishment adjoin Apple.
Beyond assiduity Google’s Andorid OS development capabilities with an arrival of new aggregation members, the accretion of Palm aswell gives Google a cast new capability. It gives them the adaptable buzz accouterments architecture adequacy that they’re currently relying on association like HTC to do for them. Agriculture out one’s accouterments development is no way to attempt with the iPhone. Heck, neither is agriculture out your software development and the adaptable buzz architecture incumbents like Nokia and Motorola accept assuredly woken up to this fact. To anon attempt with Apple in any aboveboard way over the continued term, a aggregation needs to own and ascendancy all of the engineering apparatus bare to actualize a acceptable smartphone platform. There is a able aggregation of accouterments engineers & designers over at Palm, some of whom came over anon from Apple too. Google needs a accouterments accumulation for approaching Android articles and the Palm accouterments aggregation fills that charge actual nicely. I apperceive some association accept gotten Palm phones with bad screens or keyboards, but let’s not abash bad architecture with bad manufacturing. I anticipate the Palm accouterments designs are acceptable but the arrangement architect in China may not be not accomplishing abundant superior ascendancy on locations and assembly.
Google aswell gets a brace of added pieces of the business about which I anticipate humans who accept never developed adaptable phones consistently assume to forget. Aboriginal a part of these is Palm’s absolute carrier relations team. Having a accomplished administration abounding of humans with years and years of acquaintance in managing the relationships with all the carriers such as AT&T, Verizon, China Adaptable and Vodaphone is a business adequacy that shouldn’t be taken agilely and, appear to anticipate of it, had Apple had such a accumulation if originally developing the iPhone conceivably all of their U.S. barter ability not be ashore to alone getting on the AT&T network.
Then there is the abstruse abutment adequacy and abutment basement that Palm has congenital over the years to advise the carriers how to abutment anniversary new adaptable buzz that Palm releases. I’ve heard a brace of the abutment abhorrence belief about the Nexus One and if they are accurate again Google needs all of the advice it can get in training and acknowledging the abstruse abutment organizations of anniversary adaptable buzz abettor that decides to backpack their Android phones.
I accept lots of accompany at Apple and I accept lots of accompany at Palm so I don’t wish it to assume like I’m just aggravating to acrylic Apple as the bad guy actuality or aggravating Palm as desperate. I wish added than annihilation for my accompany at Palm to be successful. But I can’t accept for a additional that I’m the alone one cerebration this Palm accretion abstraction over. I accept to brainstorm that there’s a aggregation at Google, one at Microsoft, one at Nokia and Motorola too and even one at Apple who are traveling through this aforementioned analysis. I accept to aswell brainstorm that they are all advancing up with the aforementioned conclusions. Acquiring Palm could do a lot to bank up any smartphone business and accomplish that aggregation a austere adversary in the exchange over the advancing decade. To me though, alone Google just seems to be the appropriate fit at the appropriate time for a Palm acquisition. Palm gives Google aggregate they charge to accomplish Google-branded Android smartphones austere competitors to the iPhone. But will it happen? Alone time will tel
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