Analysts say HP: buy rim or close palm

Lead: Business Insider commentator Pascal Imanuel Gebley (Pascal-emmanuel Gobry), an American science and technology information website, wrote in Thursday that HP needs to buy rim or close palm now. The following is the full text of the article: Palm's webOS platform is excellent, but it's no use if nobody uses it.　　HP Touchpad Tablet is a failed product, and who knows what HP's upcoming webOS smartphone is. Mobile phone is a platform for the game. In this game there is no drift in the middle zone, either bigger or stronger, or pack up and leave.　　Palm's situation is no exception. Of course HP now has a choice. HP can choose to become a software platform company, although the more risky but rewarding, HP needs to expand the size and wide distribution network, so the ideal target is rim, or HP can follow Dell's footsteps Continue to concentrate on commercial hardware based on the Android and Windows operating systems, but it needs to be decisive and close palm immediately. Even if palm bought 1.2 billion dollars last year, HP must learn to reluctantly.　　In this way, HP can focus on competition with Samsung and Nokia.　　Both of these options make sense, but there are pros and cons to each option, but now is the time to choose: either buy rim or turn off palm. Maybe someone will ask why rim? For one thing, rim is unlikely to stand aloof from the current market competition.　　Rim cannot have a long-term development if it is a stand-alone company. More importantly, HP and RIM are highly complementary.　　In mobile phones, HP has good software, but lacks good hardware, and rim is just the opposite. Is it possible for Microsoft to buy rim? Microsoft had a good chance of buying rim, but now it's impossible because of Nokia. Nokia and RIM are direct rivals, but both are sadly out of the high-end handset market in the growth-era emerging economies.　　At the moment, Nokia is Microsoft's top partner, and if Microsoft turns to buying rim, it is a lack of credibility. Moreover, RIM's next-generation mobile operating system has a bleak future, so rim needs a new operating platform. Rim should have bought palm before HP, because Palm's webOS operating system is perfectly compatible with RIM's hardware products. The webOS operating system has a handy keyboard and excellent communication skills that BlackBerry has always admired.　　In addition, the webOS operating system also has the current smartphone operating platform of touch screen, social and support third-party research and development functions. HP needs rim. HP needs to make adjustments, and it needs to be swift. HP now needs to produce a large number of best-selling handsets to get rid of the current decayPotential。 RIM's keyboard handset is well liked by the vast majority of consumers, though it is not adept at making touchscreen handsets. And RIM has strong capabilities in corporate sales and corporate communications software. And Rim's features are in common with Hewlett-Packard CEO Lee Ai (Leo apotheker), which is also from the corporate software industry. (Puma)