VIDEO: Rich Wong interviews HP’s Phil McKinney at MobileBeat 2010

Rich Wong, general partner at Accel, interviewed HP executive Phil McKinney at the MobileBeat 2010 conference this week. Wong applied some pressure on McKinney to come up with some answers as to why HP spent more than $1 billion buying Palm when it could have done something on its own or in partnership with others. McKinney danced around the notion of whether HP would build a “slate,” or touchscreen tablet computer. Here’s a video excerpt of the Q&A where Wong quizzes McKinney about the purchase of Palm.