Well, it looks like HP's
year of
acquisitions isn't showing any signs of letting up just yet -- it's now reportedly bought Melodeo, the parent company of the Nutsie music streaming service, for between $30 and $35 million. While the service doesn't exactly have the name recognition of the now Apple-owned
Lala, Nutsie's mobile applications (for iPhone, Android and Blackberry) have reportedly been downloaded more than two million times, and the company already has partnerships with a range of carriers and cellphone companies including Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint. As
TechCrunch reports, however, what might be most interesting is what the company has in store for Nutsie 3.0 -- it will apparently let you copy your entire iTunes library to the cloud and access any song on demand (it currently offers a more limited service that only offers a shuffle mode). We'll let you take the Palm / WebOS speculation from there.
posted June 23rd 2010 6:56PM
inb4 Palm hardware rape
@ComeShot
HP = Baller$
"Money in the bank.... shortie what'cha drank?"
Which company is next on the buying block?
@Plazmic Flame
HP will buy Apple iPhone hardware patients for $40m and put webOS on it.
@ComeShot
patents*
@ComeShot Im just hoping that early next year, palm come out and nail the whole lot with a new webOS that's better than all the other software and hardware that's better than the iPhone 4's new found good looks and specs to match all that.... Drool.. :)
Everyone's looking to build their own suite of programs and apps...
Its obvious what HPs plan is but I wonder if they truly know how much it will take to get it done right. I mean they really need to understand why Palm/webOS failed the first time around, don't repeat those mistakes, and on top of that deliver a lot new goodies to truly tempt people like me away from the iPhone.
Or Windows Mobile and Blackberry users who are prob more oriented towards the business side of mobile...
@BrookLynnsFinest
Holy crap, I actually agree with you here.
@NoNameAtAll
Same here, there's no way this is the same person commenting under that account.
@BrookLynnsFinest WebOS failed because Palm was a floundering company with misguided marketing who signed an exclusivity contract with the last place cell phone carrier. The only real complaint with the hardware is the battery life. The software can't be beat. HP has deep enough pockets to rebrand WebOS and market it from the ground up.
I think the real challenge is going to be going up fledgling against two widely supported platforms. It worked for Android because it's an open platform. They're going to have to really sell what WebOS is capable of and have some slick hardware design.
@proppat I hate the pre keyboard. But web os use so much fun to use. If hp makes some evo comparable hardware with web os, that'll be my next phone.
@BrookLynnsFinest I like how you cropped your avatar so the scratches dont show :p
Heh, looks like HP has taken Palm's iTunes spoofing to a whole new (and much more effective) level! Maybe this will be the straw that finally pushes Apple to move iTunes into the cloud.
I commented but I don't know why
Your gonna love my nuTsie...
- Slap Chop Guy.
@DeFlanko
That's what SHE said
These services are pretty cool, if this takes off there won't be a need for hundreds of gigs in your phone. I think this is what google is ultimately trying to do, have everything streamed to a device and have it super slimmed, I'll like to believe apple is trying to do this as well but they seem to be wanting to sell hardware rather than software. Still luv the IPhone for now lol
@EL MAESTRO
Streaming services won't look so hot on a dataplan with a cap and overage charges. I hate caps.
HPs plans are interesting, I will look forward for their tablet next year
I was just thinking, Palm/HP would really sell a lot of Palm webos phones if they just made an exclusive deal with Sprint to have it on their prepaid brands. I would not mind paying 35-50 a month for an unlimited Palm device.
Money Money Money MON NAY.....MOOON NAY
I just hope all this doesn't get lost in there corporation somewhere. They should keep Palm as a subsidiary and have it do all the cool mobile stuff. And keep stuffy HP doing what it now does.
This service sounds pretty interesting actually. Is anyone using it? Hows it compare to something like Zune Pass?
Well, it certainly is a product name fecund with the possibility of advertising fun.
.... Now that's Nutsie Music !
..they ought to use that strangely compelling dancing old-man from six flags adds.
@savagemike
hes dead i think :(
@ComeShot
you do realize it wasn't actually an old man, right?
Cool...so now my printer can stream music too!
damn looks like hp/palm is loading their ammunition. Hope they have a killer webos device available soon where people can stream their music with this.
Ampache can do this for FREE .. works flawless .. and you dont have to upload anything to the cloud
just curious....who the hell call a company nutsie?! just say it out loud...now faster. what the hell ?!
@sangreal it's really just "iTunes" scrambled.
The planets are lining up before our eyes!! The second generation of WebOS phones is upon us!
@gollyzila
High rankings for your avatar!!
I might just hold off on the Evo if I keep hearing news like this from HP/Palm. Come on new hardware. WebOS FTW!
I love how they bought a company that has an app for every mobile OS EXCEPT webOS. I guess that is one way to get a webOS app made.
HP needs to figure out how to put some of this crap together.
@sharkync Um.. maybe that's just what they're doing.