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HP to Spin Off PC Business as Sales Stagnate
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Exactly. That's all we have been pretty much hearing. HP is seeing it, Steve Jobs is probably in the hospital on his Macbook Pro seeing it, and every other company is....
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RIM is a different story back up here in the Canada... However, I think RIM could be next...
They have already starting laying off workers, and like I said before, its going to get messy in the next couple of weeks...
RIM is heavily embedded in the enterprise world. their market share might be falling, but they still have a core user base.
You are correct, Carly Fiorina was the one person who ruined HP. Patricia Dunn just finished the job. I get the two confused. Both where, and are, world class bitches. I had friends who worked for HP at the time and the inside story they related to me was like a obituary. Because of all of the HP calculators I have had over the years I did have a certain loyalty to HP. I wonder what is going to happen to HP printers they have long been my favorite.
like i said, unless google dramatically change their services and "direction" of android, then samsung, h&c will stay with google.
for samsung to walk away from android, they would , like you said, have to create a competent OS that at least rivals android and iOS, but is different enough to not be sued, as well as gain developer support etc
It just seems it would be a massive hill to climb and a massive risk to take.
That would be a possibility, but I imagine it being more of a split like Motorola...
More like...
HP Mobile & HP Computer Inc.
This is what determines Samsung's future with their OS. With Apple suing them in every part of the world, it's seems like Samsung has to do something in order to get some money... If Google decides that Motorola is their main hardware department, it's all over. However, if Samsung where to purchase webOS, which they did have talks today, then they could get access to webOS, but also the patents from Palm, which they could use to fight Apple with...
Palm couldn't reach its 19th birthday (1992-2010)
webOS couldn't even reach its 3rd birthday (2009-2011)
A couple of major shakeups this week in the mobile market.
SMH. The pioneers of PDA and smartphones is truly dead just like my Handspring Visor from a decade ago. Damn shame.
I feel HP is acting like Xerox in the early 1980's. They gave up too soon and are now known as being popular for making printers. Steve Jobs himself even said that Xerox could be the biggest company today. Now Apple and Microsoft are more successful just by copying Xerox's innovations that top Xerox's execs didn't believe in.
Xerox and the GUI (story sound familiar with HP and webOS?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nAX8g2FOw
All webOS needed was some better hardware underneath to power it, more carriers instead of appearing on Sprint first, better ads, and better timing instead of coming two years after iOS was released and the year Android started blowing up with the Droid/Verizon ads later that year. Palm was already bleeding even before iPhone was announced though. They were already losing the smartphone market to RIM before 2007. Treo was already losing marketshare to BlackBerry. Then had to play catchup to iOS with the app development once they revamped their Palm OS completely with webOS.
Palm's webOS was its "final fantasy." It was its last chance at redemption. It failed. It was like Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight before he left this world.
RIP to one of the pioneers of the PDA/smartphone game and their very intuitive OS which became Palm's beautiful swan song.
webOS couldn't even reach its 3rd birthday (2009-2011)
A couple of major shakeups this week in the mobile market.
SMH. The pioneers of PDA and smartphones is truly dead just like my Handspring Visor from a decade ago. Damn shame.
I feel HP is acting like Xerox in the early 1980's. They gave up too soon and are now known as being popular for making printers. Steve Jobs himself even said that Xerox could be the biggest company today. Now Apple and Microsoft are more successful just by copying Xerox's innovations that top Xerox's execs didn't believe in.
Xerox and the GUI (story sound familiar with HP and webOS?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nAX8g2FOw
All webOS needed was some better hardware underneath to power it, more carriers instead of appearing on Sprint first, better ads, and better timing instead of coming two years after iOS was released and the year Android started blowing up with the Droid/Verizon ads later that year. Palm was already bleeding even before iPhone was announced though. They were already losing the smartphone market to RIM before 2007. Treo was already losing marketshare to BlackBerry. Then had to play catchup to iOS with the app development once they revamped their Palm OS completely with webOS.
Palm's webOS was its "final fantasy." It was its last chance at redemption. It failed. It was like Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight before he left this world.
RIP to one of the pioneers of the PDA/smartphone game and their very intuitive OS which became Palm's beautiful swan song.
I fear RIM however. They already starting laying off workers a week or two ago, meaning there is something up... Surprising that there is not much news with RIM, most likely because there actually selling something to Enterprise users, which is a lot, but some companies have switched to iPhones. Lets hope RIM's upcoming offers are good to enough to stay with their Enterprise users...
The thing is though, why did webOS fail? IMO it's because it offered nothing different from android, iOS and windows 7 mobile, that and the fact developers didn't get on board.
developer support is the most important thing in an OS, samsung would have to somehow gain developer support, create and OS than is different but just as good as android etc
And IMO that is "impossible" now, how many developers will create apps for 4 completely different OS's? what can samsung do to create an OS that competes with android etc?
Too many question marks and too much risk for samsung to make.
and Google will never change there strategy, there main goal is to get their services to as many people and devices as possible, to sell information and other such things.
Yet Apple still has the ability to sue Samsung practically everywhere??? How can't Samsung fight the battle with this many patents?
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How do you know? I wonder why Google bought Motorola Mobility in the first place... IMO, I think Samsung was smart in talking to HP about webOS...
no more Palm on Mac Lion
Since HP bought Palm last year they decided to not have Palm working on Lion
so HP is forcing me to get an iPhone (5 ??) so I can continue to use my smartphone with my computer (MacBook Pro) I hope the iPhone5 will work with Sprint, that'll make things easier on me.
Great way for HP to help Apple's business.
Since HP bought Palm last year they decided to not have Palm working on Lion
so HP is forcing me to get an iPhone (5 ??) so I can continue to use my smartphone with my computer (MacBook Pro) I hope the iPhone5 will work with Sprint, that'll make things easier on me.
Great way for HP to help Apple's business.
Since HP bought Palm last year they decided to not have Palm working on Lion
so HP is forcing me to get an iPhone (5 ??) so I can continue to use my smartphone with my computer (MacBook Pro) I hope the iPhone5 will work with Sprint, that'll make things easier on me.
Great way for HP to help Apple's business.
Bootcamp or Windows Phone 7?
Samsung makes a large amount of integrated circuits and electronic components, that is unrelated to these law suits. My guess is that the bulk of those patents relates to the electronic components side of Samsung, not their consumer products.
Yeah, like "telecommunication" is not a very inclusive and generally broad description to fit everything from electronic parts to end user devices.
That seems to make sense...
Still, I would have expected to Samsung fight back somehow with Apple's lawsuit....
With Palm's patents, they should be able to fight back Apple.
Don't you think some of that might be because, besides Apple now and Nokia in the past, nobody has had any real success going it alone (see RIM)? If Samsung, LG, HTC, SonyEricsson, Kyocera, et al, continue to get fed up, it might begin to look like a risk worth taking. The only advantage I really see with Android is some people's reliance on Gmail, Gcal, and GoogleDocs. While devs are lured to writing Android apps due to the number of Android phones, they are none to happy about app sales.
Your actually wrong on this. I just got turned down for my third job in a week for not having Mac certifications. That was the sole reason for each one I applied for.
If you look at a number of IT jobs lately they want Mac certs. I never thought I'd see the day since it was always a "PC only" area and thats what I focused all of my skills on. Macs are becoming more and more popular in the work place, especially in areas where there is any sort of media development.
This isn't the case for every company but the list keeps growing. Even positions at my last job now want Mac certs.