HP to drop WebOS and PC's
 

Is HP off the rails? Latest flip-flop kills tablets, dumps PCs

I feel for those who bought into the WebOS tablet.

And I thought the MS/VZ Kin was a train wreck. I wonder why they even bother with launching the TouchPad. I am sure the retailers are thrill with the news.

Will companies ever learn to not try to compete at Apple's price point.

When their new CEO joined them last fall coming from the software giant SAP, it was pretty obvious their destiny would be in the cloud and enterprise software and not no margin PC's.

Their tablet was a joke, a huge money suck.

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That is a really good point. It will be interesting to see if Google will have learned it when they start selling their own hardware. I'm guessing they have.

I don't think the world needed yet another company selling commodity PCs anyway. Too bad that this is the end of the line for Palm / WebOS.

Well, they are the largest seller of PCs according to what I just read on CNN.

The announcement actually doesn't say _that_ it says "In addition, HP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward."

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/pr...1/110818b.html

-----Burton

Lip service, IMHO. Who's going to pay for webOS knowing that at best it's a distant third place and Android is widely available to anyone who wants to build a device?

It's a shame because webOS is really a great platform.

Yes, which makes this recent shift all the more drastic as they absorbed Compaq specifically to jump to the front of the PC business.

Actually Apple is the largest mobile PC maker now, with a 21% market share.

http://www.cultofmac.com/as-hp-looks...c-maker/109458

Which is meaningless. Given HP's past record with supporting their mobile devices, this was a death sentence for WebOS.

No one who follows these things will buy a HP tablet knowing the OS is a dead end.

Funny thing I've seen the HP tablet commercials with Russel Brand & Manny Pacquiao today. I guess the marketing dept didn't get the word. :)

Exactly, these days if no developers willing to build apps for the OS/devices, it is game over. No developers willing to put in any effort to develop anything when the main/only backer is pulling the plug.

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Yes, I didn't say mobile.

Luckily, as this decision clearly demonstrates, that wasn't too many folks...

Regards