HP: what the hell is wrong with you?
You spend a billion plus bailing out Palm and then a year later you toss it all way, blowing out a huge stock of devices for cheap after just a few months on the market, killing a couple devices just reaching the market, angering lots of people including HP executives who even had no idea they were about to get shanked by Leo...
You wanted to be like Apple, which at first sounded far fetched but somewhat reasonable considering how big you were. If you put in the dollars and stuck it out, and put WebOS into other devices (I had dreams of digital cameras running WebOS with installable apps for image processing..) you might have had a chance.
But you decided to chuck it all, including your successful PC business. I guess you wanted then to be like IBM when it sent its PC business away to Lenovo.
Then you buy Autonomous and claim that WebOS isn't dead. You want to be a software company now. I guess that's served Google well (funny that they are now buying Motorola..).
Maybe it was the right thing to do though. Assuming you do the right things next.
How about this. Put WebOS into printers and cameras and then get developers to make interesting apps for these devices. Get somebody, anybody, to take a chance and put WebOS onto a phone and/or tablet.
Even better, "port" WebOS to run on top of Android so you can make a phone that runs Android apps as well as WebOS apps (particularly Synergy, the card UI, the notifications, etc) and get HTC or somebody to make a phone with it.
Even better, make WebOS a cross platform development system where you can develop apps for WebOS and run them on Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, etc. Heck, buy out Appcelerator or Phonegap or something. You said you wanted to be a software company now..
Please, do something. I am not looking forward to abandoning my Palm Pre and getting and Android because its "the only viable option"...
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