Whats hp doing with Palm WebOS? (1 Viewer)

[Sam Posten]

Ouuuuuuuuuch. We are talking "Atari ET 2600 cartridges buried in the desert" like reaction here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/HPs-TouchPad-Is-Officially-A-siliconalley-54818795.html?x=0&.v=3
Sam

 

[DaveF]

Yikes.

 

[Sam Posten]

HP kills it's webos hardware, starts shopping it!
http://allthingsd.com/20110818/hps-apotheker-we-struck-out-with-webos-but-maybe-someone-else-wants-a-swing/?mod=socialflow
It's ovah!

 

[mattCR]

Yep, they are starting to liquidate their consumer hardware business and put an end to WebOs... wah-wah!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44193385/ns/business-us_business/#.Tk2iFah51RE

To be honest, out of all the tablets I've played with (which is a lot) it was the least. By far.

 

[DaveF]

Palm's dead.

All this has happened before. All this will happen again.

 

[Sam Posten]

MADNESS!!!!!
They are selling all existing stock 99 for the 16 and $149 for the 32s, they just sold several hundred thousand of them, only the 32s are left in stock at HP direct, go stand in line right now if you want the price at Best Buy in the AM =)
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3220862
HP Clearly into WebOS full force:
http://www.tested.com/tested-hps-now-discontinued-touchpad/47-486/

 

[Sam Posten]

Anyone else get one on clearance? Here's one unhappy camper:
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/humor-hitler-bad-news-hp-ditching-touchpad

 

[DaveF]

http://www.marco.org/2011/08/19/rose-colored-glasses

I liked webOS. I thought it had some smart design. I wanted it to succeed. Marco astutely observes how it was never a good system, always six months away from being awesome.

 

[mattCR]

Selling them now for $99....

 

[Sam Posten]

LIVE AGAIN
http://www.amazon.com/HP-FB356UT-QUALCOMM-Snapdragon-Wireless/dp/B0056UOUHS/ref=sr_1_3?t=slickdeals&tag=slickdeals&ie=UTF8&m=A33Y0YQUZ2NYD5&s=pc&qid=1313960277&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056UOUC8/ref=ox_ya_os_product?t=slicinc-20&tag=slicinc-20

 

[Sam Posten]

greetings from my 32gb TouchPad i'm still getting my sea legs here :-P

 

[DaveF]

I like the random speculation that Amazon will buy it, and change their rumored tablet to webOS from Android

 

[Sam Posten]

You couldn't build a better plan to murder a company:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576535211589514334.html
Except maybe this:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/29/samsung_rumored_to_buy_webos_to_compete_with_apples_ios_mac_os_x.html
http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

 

[Sam Posten]

And the quarterback is toast.....
http://allthingsd.com/20110919/layoffs-at-hps-palm-division/

 

[Sam Posten]

/boggle:
http://gizmodo.com/5850862/hp-touchpad-gets-a-webos-upgrade-from-beyond-the-grave

 

[Sam Posten]

"Good luck with that"
http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/3/2534968/motorola-xoom-2-and-xoom-2-media-edition-officially-launched-in-the-uk

 

[DaveF]

Is the xoom using webos?

 

[Sam Posten]

Sorry that was the wrong link:
http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/2/2533759/slate-2-hp-tries-tablets-again-with-windows-swype-and-a-stylus-for-699

 

[Sam Posten]

Bah, shoulda put this in the mobile forum not the computer one.
Bahahahaha and duuuuuur:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/14/3331282/hp-working-on-smartphone

 

[Hanson]

I just can't see anyone at HP designing something that would surpass Apple's immaculate polish or Android's eye-popping spec list. Nokia's camera is also out of reach. So where are they positioning themselves? What is the single reason you would even glance sideways at an HP phone? Not to mention that it would probably take a few iterations before they had to kind of culture to design anything worth buying over the market leaders. This is HP -- they would kill the phone division for losing money before anything like that could take root. If HP showed themselves to be a little more farsighted and really committed to the handheld market, I might think they have a glimmer of hope. But Meg sounds like a dilettante here. If she really had some sort of foresight or insight into the mobile market, she wouldn't have waited a whole year after shutting down their phone and tablet divisions before saying they need to get into the phone market.