Google nearly walked into a trap that even BlackBerry knew to avoid

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http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RhZg.s4XKZXyHpcX_bInBA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/megwhitman.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/google-nearly-walked-trap-even-blackberry-knew-avoid-181006036.html)Last month, when we heard the suggestion that BlackBerry should team up with HP to give its devices more of a presence in the enterprise, we called it the worst advice BlackBerry has ever received. What’s more, we expressed confidence that BlackBerry CEO John Chen was wise enough to avoid that particular pitfall given HP’s utterly disastrous history with designing and selling mobile products, low-lighted by its decision to buy and then quickly kill off Palm’s once-promising webOS platform. However, it looks as though Google came very close to taking-the plunge into the dangerous waters that BlackBerry knew to avoid. Via Droid Life, The Information reports that “Google’s Android unit has been talking to Hewlett-Packard and others about enabling the



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