Apple alumni wax nostalgic
The bit about Apple IP vs. Palm reduces to whether Palm either licenses
or cross-licenses from Apple. Likely not. The bad blood also has to do
with a few ex-Apple emps who went to Palm, including Donna Dubinsky,
Dave Nagel, and lately Jon Rubinstein and Fred Anderson, not to mention
Bono's interest.
It gets more interesting from a patent perspective in the case of Microsoft
buying Palm. Does Microsoft still have a patent cross-licensing arrangement
with Apple? Are patents transferrable across boundaries of a subsidiary?
About the "Pre", what does the physical keyboard do, anyway?
Seems like a redundant mechanically breakable softspot, and otherwise
a me-too product -- Apple copycats never seem to win...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
