传Google苹果也曾竞购Palm 苹果出价不够出局

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传Google苹果也曾竞购Palm 苹果出价不够出局
  X, r  S3 x' r/ A3 u作者:编译/芒果　 来源: TechWeb.com.cn 　 日期：2010.07.16 17:12　(共有0 条评论)  我要评论
据国外媒体报道，消息人士透露，苹果和Google也曾竞购Palm，苹果因出价不够告吹，Google在苹果出局后放弃收购。
' q9 D, `% ^; T* m　　【TechWeb报道】7月16日消息，据国外媒体报道，消息人士透露，苹果和Google也曾竞购Palm，苹果因出价不够告吹，Google在苹果出局后放弃收购。
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　　最终，惠普以12亿美元中标。然而在交易宣布之前，有5家硅谷领先的企业在角逐，包括苹果、Google和RIM。
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　　苹果和Google都对Palm丰富的知识产权和专利感兴趣。苹果想得到Palm的专利组合，虽然这意味着苹果将支持两个相互竞争的应用平台。据称，苹果最终因为出价不够出局。
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　　Google也有意收购Palm，因为Google认为苹果可能想得到知识产权。据称，Google在确定苹果没有中标后也不再寻求收购。
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　　也许最耐人寻味的是，黑莓制造商RIM几乎已经胜券在握，与Palm的交易几乎不可能告吹，但最后惠普却以更高的出价击败了RIM。

　　Google和苹果未对此消息置评。

! h- G5 }: ~# [, f+ q  |4 a/ k　　在Palm最后一季度糟糕的盈利表现后，出售的传闻就开始升温。报告显示，该公司的Palm Pre和Palm Pixi手机尚未有热销势头。而Palm本期望采用了新WebOS系统的手机能帮助该公司扭转颓势。
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5 K+ }) T% r; M  w3 E# i% ?　　外界认为，惠普收购Palm意在快速进入移动设备市场。然而，惠普随后迅速回应称，吸引该公司的是Palm的知识产权组合，并经常谈论其在WebOS方面的新计划，到目前为止包括平板电脑和网络打印机。(编译/芒果)

edheen

如果这是真的话也从侧面说明palm是多么的优秀…

linsecond

还有一家没有提到,莫非是MS...........................................

retniw

要是电信收去就好了。移动更好

yujlng

原帖由 edheen 于 2010-7-17 20:33 发表
如果这是真的话也从侧面说明palm是多么的优秀…

还有家应该是中国的山寨厂吧

36730753

一切都如梦幻泡影

goldenbear

苹果？？？
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9 a* h& o0 p& V0 Z3 Q有可能只是想消灭一个强大（或将会很强大）的竞争对手吧，卖给苹果PALM就毁了，万幸。

水鱼民

是啊，卖给苹果就多了一个VOODOO了

2b6c3d729918489

Wow…here is a little gem I wasn’t expecting today. Business Insider reports on some juicy details we didn’t have before about the Palm bidding wars. Earlier we had reported that several companies were fighting over Palm once the bidding got started. Back then, we didn’t know who was fighting. The companies involved were simply A, B, C, and D.  Today we get some more details, and it may be just enough to put all the pieces together.

First, it has been revealed that Apple really did want to buy Palm, but they low balled it and weren’t really competitive. What is really interesting is, according to BI’s sources, “Apple even seemed committed to funding Palm’s operations, perhaps to challenge RIM’s dominance in the keyboarded segment of the smartphone industry”. Now they doubt that, and so do we. Apple would definitely want to get their hands on Palm’s patent portfolio, but to think for a second that Apple would have let Palm and webOS continue would take some serious snorting of the fairy dust.
Next, we learned that RIM REEEEEALLY wanted Palm (and bid way more than HP initially), but then they got some cold feet and lowered their offer to a bit less than Palm was offering.
8 p2 s+ Y* y9 b" d* BGoogle…Google, kinda got involved. Dipped it’s toes in the water, then said “Nah!” and moved on. Not really a serious contender as far as anyone could tell.
  M2 N# C) ]* fOf course, previous reports showed that Lenovo was interested as well.
Ok, so now that we know who was courting our beloved Palm, did the best company win? In all honesty, I think so. Here’s why:
1. Apple was in it for the patents…pure and simple. If they would have won, then Palm and webOS would have ceased to exist and we would all be grumpy. Or we may have gotten a phone that dropped calls all the time (sorry, couldn’t resist).
2. Google…again,  I think this would have been a patent grab. Best case scenario here would have been webOS would have rubbed off on Android. Who likes that idea? Bleh…
5 r; t& n0 G, r6 u. c9 b+ G6 a3. Lenovo. This could have been interesting, and I think it probably would have been a very similar situation to HP. Computer company wanting to get a head start on the smartphone business. Probably would have ended up pretty well, but the fact that they are a Chinese company makes it a bit hard to tell.
1 H/ J+ Y* E% J/ Z* z  a9 w: g4. RIM. This one is a toughie…RIM is in dire need of some OS love. Their fans are rabid and many, but there is no question their OS is behind the times. Would they have adopted webOS and let it thrive, or would they have absorbed it and let it turn into some crazy frankenOS with their BB stuff. No way to know, but I lean toward the latter…
' F) E4 f) z+ W; |All in all, very interesting stuff. Doesn’t mean much in the ultimate scheme of things, but learning the details that went on behind the scenes is always interesting.
Finally…if you want a breakdown of who A, B, C, and D may have been. Here is BI’s guess which sounds just about right to us.

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• “Company A” offered $600 million in cash and didn’t raise its bid. We assume this is Apple, making its lowball cash bid but not getting into a bidding war.

• “Company B” proposed to acquire Palm in a stock-for-stock transaction, but also said that its “proposed transaction would take at least several months longer to close than is customary.” We assume this is Lenovo, the Chinese PC maker that was reportedly the “leading candidate” for Palm in mid-April.

• “Company C” first wanted to acquire patent rights from Palm, then later tried to buy Palm as a whole. It originally offered $6-7 per share, but after more diligence, lowered its bid to $5.50 per share. We assume this is RIM.

• “Company D” contacted Palm to discuss an intellectual property transaction but did not make a proposal to acquire Palm. Discussions continued intermittently and fizzled out. We assume this is Google.

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