Navigating Amazon II
Thank you all who pointed out similar chatter prior to today’s rumors/news.
So yes. A Palm acquisition was suggested by Presprit back in June 2009 on one of the forums on Precentral.net. This was around the time when Kindle was still new and a Palm acquisition was not only far-fetched but highly over-valued.
Daily Finance has also suggested Amazon as a dark horse. But they say that with Palm, Amazon could move into the mobile arena. I doubt Amazon has aspirations in the cellular/smart phone space and that could in fact be detrimental to Amazon’s long term strategy of SaaS, PaaS, etc. Of course the other bidders mentioned by them, and by almost every place is Lenovo. While it may make perfect sense, for Lenovo to compete on an OS front with its partners would again be a distraction – at least in the shorter term.
Comments on “Who Is Going To Buy Palm”, published last month, on Business Insider also suggest Amazon as a great suitor for Palm.
Brian Lawe of MyStoreCredit.com had suggested last year, on TechCrunch, that Amazon buy Twitter. Hmm. Hadn’t thought of that, but given the synergies he has detailed, I say Bezos, you out there reading the chatter?
All the more reinforces my previous post. Just wanted to update with these smaller details. More later.
