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Palm Computing Superseded

Palm Computing
KindCompany
Founded1992
Defunct2010
StatusSuperseded
FoundersJeff Hawkins
FieldHandhelds
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Graffiti and the Pilot — the PDA's defining company, webOS's creator, spun off and bought back until HP absorbed it in 2010.

Acquired by Hewlett-Packard
Created webOS
Acquisitions Be Inc.

Hawkins founded Palm in 1992; US Robotics bought it in 1995, 3Com spun it out in 2000, the founders left to make Handspring, and Palm bought Handspring back in 2003 — corporate chaos that somehow produced the Pilot (1996), the first PDA that worked.

webOS (2009) pioneered card multitasking and Synergy sync; HP bought Palm for $1.2 billion in 2010 and killed the hardware within a year. webOS lives on in LG televisions.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc.