Phil McKinney: I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days.
FORMER HP CTO PHIL MCKINNEY: I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days.
Man, I remember those days. I (along with the rest of the world) was three years into iPhone, but my phone prior to that was a Treo 650, and I'd owned a Palm IIIc in college. I was curious to see where Palm would go... just to see it spectacularly flame out under new ownership.