HP: Buying Palm is not a smartphone

On March 9, Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd said in a technology conference last week that Hewlett-Packard's $1.2 billion trillion acquisition of palm was not an attempt to enter the smartphone market, according to Taiwanese media reports. ' We're not buying palm to enter the smartphone industry ... we buy palm for intellectual property, ' says Hurd.　　webOS is one of the two basic software that constructs a network operating environment, and HP has many devices linked to the network, imagine that if there is a network link environment, so that you can achieve a common look and feel, in that environment to use the same set of services, it will bring great value. From the moment Hewlett-Packard said it wanted to buy palm, it was clear that Palm's smart portfolio was attractive, but the previous story focused largely on how to use webOS, as the current plan includes a tablet computer and a network printer. It was not until now that Hurd the possibility of grabbing the smartphone market, but it was also curious as to how HP intended to dispose of Palm's hardware business.