Unsurprising, but still sad. The writing was on the wall in massive bold letters when the pace of OS updates slowed to a crawl 6-8 months ago, and the Pre2/Pre3 releases kept getting pushed back.

Palm did a lot with very little in terms of developing a very capable OS, and some of their ideas live on in Android and iOS, just as the WebOS team stole ideas from Android and iOS in the beginning. I don't know what HPalm's patent stash looks like, but I think Google should at least kick the tires on a deal to snap up whatever else was in the pipeline when the music stopped.