“HP during its conference call discussing a decision to keep its PC group dashed hopes of a webOS tablet revival,” Electronista reports.
“CEO Meg Whitman wanted HP to compete against the iPad, saying the company needed to ‘be in the tablet business,’ but put the hopes for the company’s Personal Systems Group strategy back on Microsoft,” Electronista reports. “The company was ‘certainly going to be there’ when Windows 8 shipped sometime next year, she said.”
Electronista reports, “A small element of hope was given to webOS supporters. The company was still ‘evaluating’ what it would do with the team and would decide in about two months, according to HP. With no mobile device plans and tablets only returning with Windows, its position nonetheless hadn’t changed.”
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MacDailyNews Take:
Dear Microsoft,
Thank you, sir, I’ll have another.
– Meg.
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HP: Uh, on second thought, we’re going to keep our PC division – October 27, 2011
Decision in about 2 months. Merry Christmas loyal employees. Your Fired.
That’s exactly what I was thinking – WebOS folks will be victims of the dreaded “holiday layoff”.
You’re.
Maybe they can just rebrand the iPad like they did with the iPod (for a while).
If I were HP CEO, this would be my strategy. I imagine all the Apple haters would flock to my hPad.
Squirrely running back into the arms of those HP thinks will protect them. Same old, same old. Real original thinking Meg. Play it safe and reap no reward.
HP has had over 4 years to plan and execute an obviously needed strategy against the iPhone and its logical extensions.
Why do I think they still don’t know what they are doing now?
Why do I think they have no backbone?
With WebOS, HP had a chance of something new, creative.
With Windows, they are just another two bit OEM, barely managing 5% margins.
Totally lacking any vision – again! Want an image that will make you gag? Imagine Meg Whitman and Steve Ballmer naked in bed together. That is the picture of HP moving forward — NOT very pretty! (My apologies to anyone who is reading this while eating)
Next time you can put a warning on top of your post.
Imagine the baby that would come from that duo.. BLEEEAAHHHH!
What makes you have any shadow of an inkling that Ballmer’s not shooting blanks and Whitman has anywhere to put ’em if he has ’em?
In other HP news…
“HP bringing back floppy disks and dot matrix printers.”
Hell yeah man! Dot Matrix printers were reliable and ink was cheap! 😉
yeah, that’s the first step to wipe out iPads from tablet market. with windows 8 on tablet, consumers will get the real tablet OS, not just a toys like iOS.
Very agree with HP’s decisions 😀 …
joining on MSFT allies will give you success
Good work HP, you will get the beautifull day with microsoft. Like Nokia-Microsoft works 😀
We’re WebOS developer, have move in to windows phone platform … what we get ? a full support and powerful development tools… very fantastic , you know …
i see the bright future with WP 😀
Think of all the free concert tickets!!
Uh-oh. Look at all the different WP developers here! That means they’re well represented in the general population of developers! Apple is doomed!
Stupidest idea ever.
I just finished reading Steve’s biography. There’s a lot there the technology industry can learn. HP used to have it in their ADN, until they killed it. Now.. it’s a joke.
Did you mean DNA—or maybe ADN = adenoids?
Dyslexics of the world: Untie!
I have CDO – it’s like OCD, but the letters are in the correct order.
In my cells I have ADN.
HP Windows 8 tablets. Gluttons for punishment much HP?
There are definitely a few screws loose over at HP these days. But at least they’ve retracted their intentions to dump their PC business. Massive DUH factor.
Microsoft managed to get HP back to them. This CEO favors Microsoft so they basically did the same thing what they did with Nokia. Good luck with that.