HP’s declaration came with a lot of huge words being tossed about, such as “strategic alternatives” and “application ecosystems.”
It’s unclear as to what will happen to its computer business, as a separate company for personal is being considered.
I’m still kind of shocked about Hewlett-Packard Co.’s decision to exit the smartphone and paper arena.
Then its focus would be on helping customers manage information, along with printing, servers, storage and a few other services. But even that forward-looking explanation is a tiny murky.
As you read further into the announcement, you’ll run crossways “exploration of the separation.”
The one thing I do comprehend is that all the transactions should be complete in about 12-18 months.
As for the other explanations, the ideal I can figure is that when the going got tough in the smartphone and paper market, the tough got gone.
Only weeks ago …I was looking forward to the next generation of a webOS smartphone and hoping for a larger device.
I’m going to miss HP being around in the smartphone and HP Tablet market. It was only a few weeks ago that I was praising the HP Veer smartphone, an offshoot of HP’s acquisition of Palm, where it got its hands on the webOS technology that powering the Palm Pre devices.
I like webOS and it’s too good to just toss by the wayside. Then you have all the Palm smartphones fans that were seeing signs of life for that brand.
But maybe HP will continue development of the webOS technology and license it to other vendors or use it in other applications.
The Palm Pre 3, a successor to the Palm Pre 2, was supposed to show up this summer. But now it might be too far back in the pipeline to make a debut and if it does, what’s the point.
It’s dead in the water on arrival, as app development for the HP smartphones and HP Tablet will probably come to a halt.
That’s a shame and a real blow to all the Palm fans.
Now what?
The news of HP’s new direction is even worse for paper customers who bought the HP TouchPad tablet.
I was on standby for the FedEx truck to leave a TouchPad for a column review, but it’s no use looking out the window now.
The only deliveries will probably be the TouchPads going back to the vendors for those who have bought them – and can send them back.
I should have known something was brewing with HP and the TouchPad when the price was dropped by $100 a couple of weeks ago.
Although the TouchPad arrived late in the paper space around July 1, I thought it had a fighting chance with the slick webOS platform and the incorporated synergy between the other HP devices, such as the Pre 3 and Veer.
But I guess HP thought differently after looking around at the iPad and all the Android tablets in the market.
The BlackBerry PlayBook also beat the TouchPad out the door by a couple of months.
So, it’s so long to HP tablets and smartphones, but it didn’t take long for something else to show up.
2 of guys from T-Mobile USA Inc. dropped off the LG G-Slate paper a few days ago.
The G-Slate is T-Mobile’s first 4G Android paper and is running the Honeycomb operating system.
It’s a doozy, with the capability to record 3D and HD video.
So, HP’s exit from smartphone, HP paper arena disappointing for more fans.
source : www.nocommentnews.com/192/hp-tablet-products-dissapointed
