Palm

Yesterday, HP CEO Mark Hurd ruffled a few feathers by saying the company didn't buy Palm to get into the smartphone business. Rather, HP purchased Palm for the company's IP and WebOS and wants to put WebOS on tablets, netbooks and more.

HP surprised everyone when it swooped in and purchased Palm for more than $1.2 billion. However, despite dropping more than a couple of pretty pennies on the smartphone company, it seems HP isn't even interested in that side of Palm.

HP's Slate PC is said to be launching in October and comments from a HP Taiwan exec suggest that it could run Palm's WebOS.

HP is already making the most out of its billion dollar acquisition of Palm.

First the Courier, now the HP Slate.

Palm has been saved--for now, that is.

Well so much for Palm surviving as an independent company; HP has swooped in a snapped up the smartphone company for a cool $1.2 billion.

HTC has said that it won't be submitting an offer to purchase Palm, despite the rumor mill saying otherwise.

We post stuff that the majority of our readers enjoy reading, and even so, Apple articles get bashed constantly -- mainly by just a select few. But what about the other way around? Are Apple-fans just as rabid? Apparently so.