• San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, August 19, 2011 11:30 AM

When HP bought Palm for $1.2 billion in April 2010, it inherited Palm's hardware division, which created the Pre smartphone, and the software division, which built Web OS.

It also inherited Jon Rubinstein, one of the masterminds behind the original iPod, and the Godfather of the next-gen Palm hardware. Everything he's designed has been beautiful and functional, but has bombed sales-wise.

And in a surprise move today, HP just announced that it's killing its mobile hardware division.

Here's everything that led up to today.

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