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HP to Spin Off PC Business as Sales Stagnate
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They knew Windows 8 was coming.
Creating a Tablet for any other OS was stupid.
Web OS should have been included in the laptops in a Pre-Boot OS to save battery. They have something similar right now, but it sucks.
They need new blood running the company
Creating a Tablet for any other OS was stupid.
Web OS should have been included in the laptops in a Pre-Boot OS to save battery. They have something similar right now, but it sucks.
They need new blood running the company
to be brutally honest, adobe and microsoft had it right with "Lets TEAM UP a/g apple to beat them..
I will have to call shenanigans on that statement. I've had HP notebooks since way before the Centrino days (don't even remember what those processors were called back then), and they've never been good to me.
Seems like Apple is just dominating everyone and the all other companies are becoming less and less
what recession?
what recession?
The reason is simple: first-mover advantage. Apple got it and will only lose that advantage by its own mistakes (which nowadays are not very common, to be honest).
But you know who is the GREAT winner out of HP's decision? MS.
Believe me, in between Android's legal struggles and Apple's dominance, they will constitute the second most common post-PC platform with the not-so-bad-yet-much-worse-than-iOS Windows 8 - just wait and see.
Glad I didn't buy a webOS tablet. To bad HP gave up. Don't think I could trust HP on anything since they gave up so fast. Android sucks so looks like apple will rule the tablet market. RIP WebOS.
You know, comparing HP to IBM is wrong. HP is acting more like Yahoo. They buy up various companies. They then stifle with restructuring. And finally they either kill it or they half kill it only to say they're really trying to increase it's value (e.g. delicious).
I may be wrong, but do you see HP doing stuff like this?
There has got to be more to this story, otherwise HP leadership is incompetent and the board should be calling for heads.
I may be wrong, but do you see HP doing stuff like this?
There has got to be more to this story, otherwise HP leadership is incompetent and the board should be calling for heads.
WebOS stalled for too long and missed its window of opportunity (maybe Palm should have sold themselves sooner?). iOS is obviously established. Android is much more established than it was 12-18mo ago, and MS is a still a big enough player that they can always get their foot in the door (at least for a little big longer). I don't think there's any room for WebOS even though I think it's a great mobile OS. Palm, and later HP, just couldn't get new products to market fast enough.
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Sad news since webOS is actually my favorite mobile OS of them all. The card system was very intuitive with the touch gestures. Closing and switching to the next apps were fun to do unlike Apple's implementation which involves more steps like tapping the home button twice. WebOS was swipe to the left, right, or up. The notification system is also stellar on webOS even with iOS5 on the horizon. Very unobtrusive on webOS. I even love how the music controls shows in the lockscreen or in the very bottom of the homescreen.
I always said Palm pulled off a "Sega" at the end. Dreamcast was a great console that died too soon because of lack of sales, lack of third-party exclusives, more powerful hardware from its competitors, and Sega hemorrhaging money. People wanted Sony PlayStation 2 instead. WebOS was a great OS that died too soon because of lack of sales, lack of third-party apps, more powerful hardware from its competitors, and Palm was hemorrhaging money before HP bought them out. More people wanted Apple or Android instead.
The brains behind webOS was a former Apple employee who also created the iPod - the device that helped bring Apple back to the top.
Oh well, I will always keep my Palm Pixi Plus as a memento of a great OS. I much prefer its form factor than the Pre model because of the thinness, QWERTY, weight balance at typing, and a more durable candybar form factor. And the homebrew community will still be there if you go on PreCentral. ;-) I can always watch the Manny Pacquiao webOS commercials and smile like he did. And if there is a fire sale with webOS products, I may just start picking them up. I really want that Touchpad for under $200. Dead OS, but it doesn't mean I can't do other stuff like web browsing even if I can't get new apps or updates anymore. WebOS might just be the best bang for your buck like when those Sega Dreamcasts were selling for $50 back in 2001 to clear out inventory.
RIP to webOS (2009-2011)
Google buys Motorola. HP ditches webOS. What a week in tech news!
I always said Palm pulled off a "Sega" at the end. Dreamcast was a great console that died too soon because of lack of sales, lack of third-party exclusives, more powerful hardware from its competitors, and Sega hemorrhaging money. People wanted Sony PlayStation 2 instead. WebOS was a great OS that died too soon because of lack of sales, lack of third-party apps, more powerful hardware from its competitors, and Palm was hemorrhaging money before HP bought them out. More people wanted Apple or Android instead.
The brains behind webOS was a former Apple employee who also created the iPod - the device that helped bring Apple back to the top.
Oh well, I will always keep my Palm Pixi Plus as a memento of a great OS. I much prefer its form factor than the Pre model because of the thinness, QWERTY, weight balance at typing, and a more durable candybar form factor. And the homebrew community will still be there if you go on PreCentral. ;-) I can always watch the Manny Pacquiao webOS commercials and smile like he did. And if there is a fire sale with webOS products, I may just start picking them up. I really want that Touchpad for under $200. Dead OS, but it doesn't mean I can't do other stuff like web browsing even if I can't get new apps or updates anymore. WebOS might just be the best bang for your buck like when those Sega Dreamcasts were selling for $50 back in 2001 to clear out inventory.
RIP to webOS (2009-2011)
Google buys Motorola. HP ditches webOS. What a week in tech news!
I agree about MS taking charge against an Android/Apple dominated market. The true sad part of this all is that Palm had the greatest advantage with the Treo, but killed it with the Foleo and a stale OS.
I see WebOS just being gobbled up by some soon-to-be-released HP software package.
Those are problems if you try to create an iPad clone and release it half-baked. It is like they heard Job's quote about skating to where the puck was and decided they should skate to where the puck was half an hour ago. They could have been gutsy really tried to use webOS but instead they release a buggy iPad knockoff and make weird quotes that imply using webOS in their printers. They had a chance to become a new and major platform but they wasted that opportunity by playing the same old game they have been.
Bummer about the Palms OS. Never saw it, but I heard it was nice.
But as for their hardware, good riddance. Every HP I've ever worked on was a cheap, creaky disposable stinkpile. Is there really a need for so many Dell clones in this world?
Waiting for someone to offer a concise PC product line done as well as Apple does its line. Wasn't going to be HP anyway.
But as for their hardware, good riddance. Every HP I've ever worked on was a cheap, creaky disposable stinkpile. Is there really a need for so many Dell clones in this world?
Waiting for someone to offer a concise PC product line done as well as Apple does its line. Wasn't going to be HP anyway.
Good news for Dell I guess, HP was the really the only other seller that's well known for being a computer brand by consumers in the U.S. All the others (Apple, Toshiba, Samsung, Acer etc.) are known for other things, or are not really known at all by most consumers.
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You have got it exactly backwards. We live in a digital world. The tablets exists to eliminate the need for printers and paper. Information does not need to be converted into a bunch of dead trees.
Humpty Dumpty can't be put back together again. Agilent spun off its semiconductor business as Avago.
I long for the days of the old HP. The one that had its tentacles in every area of technology and was so diversified it could afford to let one business area not do so well for a while.
Sigh. What a mess their success with printers created.
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