HTC "Continues to Assess" Making Their Own Smartphone OS--or Buying One From Palm

Bloomberg reports that HTC is studying whether to create its own OS to compete with Apple's iPhone OS, Google's Android, and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. It's no easy feat--but HTC sees lots of reasons to try it.

"We continue to assess, but that requires a few conditions
to justify" having our own system, Cheng Hui-ming,
chief
financial officer of the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company, said
in a phone interview with Bloomberg today.

Those "conditions to justify" are pretty easy to figure out...