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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
I really wonder about the fit for HP. Palm lost money the past 11 quarters -- that's a pretty dismal record. The Palm Pre was intended to revitalise the line and was nothing short of a disaster -- not as a device or piece of technology -- but in sales. It got lots of media and was marketed heavily ... but still it did not sell to expectations. And now the Smartphone market is very cramped. I also would be very cautious about predicting room for a fourth tablet platform -- Apple, Android, Windows ... WebOS, too? Really?
What HP gets out of this is the potential to take the company through a profitable soft-landing as it pulls out the talent and puts them on projects that have a clearer future. The good folks and their thinking behind WebOS might help HP gain an edge in the nascent Android tablet market. There is no leading Android specialist yet: perhaps that's where HP is headed.
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Did you see Palm's ads for the Pre? I'm sure they were trying to be memorable, but it came off as downright creepy and also rather ineffective. Palm additionally made the mistake of giving Sprint six months exclusivity here in the US. By the time the Pre hit Verizon it was overshadowed by all the Droid hype.
WebOS itself is a fantastic little operating system. It deserves more than to be hacked up for the sake of Android. Besides, Android is fragmented enough as is.