Dans une interview surprenante sur AlwaysOn (voir extrait ci-dessous) Nobuyuki Idei, PDG de Sony, explique que si la division logiciels de Palm était à vendre il serait preneur.

Il explique qu’il y a 3 trois ans les Palm étaient encore assez rudimentaires mais ils deviennent de plus en plus perfectionnés. Le coûts des licences que Sony doit acquitté à Palm s’avère de plus en plus élevé. Ainsi, acheter la division logiciels de Palm pourrait intéressé Sony.

Extrait de l’interview du pdg de Sony

Perkins: What about your relationships with Palm and Symbian?

Idei: In terms of our OS strategy, it is not clear whether Symbian, which we share with the Nokia phones, is the right way to go for the mobile phone. And I can’t tell you why Sony has a Symbian OS on its phones and Palm OS on its PDAs. [Laughs] Even Bill Gates asked me if I was crazy. But this is our history. I really want to own either Symbian or Palm—I want to buy them. Three years ago the Palm was so simple, but it is getting better and better. My problem now is that as Palm licensee we have to pay them lots of money. Palm is like Apple—we don’t know if they are a software company or a hardware company. But they have now split in two.

Perkins: You would buy Palm’s software business?

Idei: Yes, if they want to sell.