1. Sell the division formerly known as Palm (including webOS) to Facebook
2. Profit!
It would make a lot of sense for facebook to turn webos into the facebook mobile platform, making canvas apps first class citizens and tightly integrating facebook into the OS. The Palm acquisition would come with Palm's hardware engineers (HP hasn't fired them yet, right?), which would allow Faecbook to design their own hardware and outsource manufacturing to CM's.
Designing their own hardware would allow for a less powerful, less expensive device to have as good a user experience as the mid-range Android devices. Remember the PSP? It had a 200mhz MIPS cpu and 32mb of ram. The reason why it felt so powerful is that it was a known quantity to developers, so they could make assumptions that wouldn't be violated when a new device came out. That low price would allow the Facebook phone to play in the low end of the market, which is mostly currently populated by feature phones. And being able to run Facebook canvas apps natively would provide thousands of applications right out of the gate.
2. Profit!
It would make a lot of sense for facebook to turn webos into the facebook mobile platform, making canvas apps first class citizens and tightly integrating facebook into the OS. The Palm acquisition would come with Palm's hardware engineers (HP hasn't fired them yet, right?), which would allow Faecbook to design their own hardware and outsource manufacturing to CM's.
Designing their own hardware would allow for a less powerful, less expensive device to have as good a user experience as the mid-range Android devices. Remember the PSP? It had a 200mhz MIPS cpu and 32mb of ram. The reason why it felt so powerful is that it was a known quantity to developers, so they could make assumptions that wouldn't be violated when a new device came out. That low price would allow the Facebook phone to play in the low end of the market, which is mostly currently populated by feature phones. And being able to run Facebook canvas apps natively would provide thousands of applications right out of the gate.