HP TouchPad - WebOS

STA · August 31, 2011, 8:02pm

Re: HP TouchPad - WebOS

I think everyone has a misunderstanding. HP did a big booboo with their press release last week when they declared to discontinue TouchPad. What they “meant to say” was that they are not going to stay in the business of producing hardware and sell TouchPads. Their intention is to license out the OS to third party vendors. Sort of in the same way that Google is distributing their Android platform (the current bid to Moto notwithstanding).

WebOS is going to go on for the forseeable future. Although the bungling announcement didn’t help the platform any.

HP also announced that they’re getting rid of their PC business. But again that wasn’t their intended message. They are considering various options for the PC business. It could end up being a spin off company and get an entity of its own. One of the pundits suggested maybe they call it ‘Compaq’.

TB: congratz on completion 8k and providing valuable input to IT users.