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1. BigMac2

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   08/18, 03:56pm | report spam | close reply

   That was quick

   HP have been real quick to pull the plug on its tablet. Too bad, I was considering WebOS one of iOS contender.

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1. rvhernandez

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   08/18, 04:05pm | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   Wow

   That's just all I have to say! I had to look at the calendar to make sure it wasn't "April Fools".

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1. facebook_Paul

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   08/18, 04:08pm | report spam | close reply

   HP will sell Palm IP to highest bidder?

   This makes sense if HP thinks they can sell the crucial Palm Intellectual Property patents to the highest bidder.
   
   In the current client, they stand to make way more from the IP than from the products themselves.

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1. Rezzz

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   08/18, 04:12pm | report spam | close reply

   Marketing Campaign

   All those lost millions during prime time TV. A swift kick to the nads.

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1. lamewing

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   08/18, 04:14pm | report spam | close reply

   Advertising

   I must have hear 5 adverts on the radio for the Touchpad just this morning. I guess they haven't gotten the memo yet!

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1. climacs

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   08/18, 04:16pm | report spam | close reply

   if the markets weren't tanking today

   this news should have led to a modest bump up in AAPL and is potentially great news for the continued dominance of iOS products. Although TP was not even a mosquito bite compared to iPad sales (and so its departure from the marketplace won't help all that much selling incrementally more iPads), HP's departure sends a strong sign to competitors that maybe they should consider throwing in the towel as well, that perhaps they are simply not going to survive the iPad/iPhone juggernaut. It re-confirms, as well, in the minds of consumers that there's iPad and there's everything else... some of which may not be around for very long after you buy one of those wannabes.

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1. Bobfozz

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   08/18, 04:22pm | report spam | close reply

   HP Services

   Makes you wonder if HP couldn't pull it off in the tablet field, the Air field, who would want their services with a "crack" outfit like that??

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1. climacs

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   08/18, 04:31pm | report spam | close reply

   because...

   the competencies required to sell hardware to consumers are different (though somewhat related) than those required to sell hardware to businesses, which in turn are different than those required to provide services to business.
   
   I wouldn't buy a printer or computer from HP (though the monitor I bought 2 years ago is pretty nice). Someone passed down to me a combo scanner/printer... the software sucks and HP really rapes you on the cartridges. I only use it to scan. My mother has an HP Pavilion laptop that's a real P.O.S.

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1. jdsonice@gmail.com

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   08/18, 04:37pm | report spam | close reply

   HP Services = EDS

   HP purchased their PC business by taking over Compaq (remember Carly baby) and then brought EDS to bolster its services business and now HP=EDS will be true. I guess Carly was wrong after all. The Compaq purchase (as was WebOS) was a mistake. They should have stuck to their core UNIX and Storage business.
   
   I guess they will still have some manufacturing i.e. the printer and consumables plus there UNIX business.
   
   Looks like the the services business is going to get crowded and soon HP, IBM, CSC, blah blah will be competing against each other and when they can't find people or when their CEO's feel they are not getting a big enough bonus they will layoff and hire overseas. Watch for HP to start advocating increased H1-B visa numbers.
   
   More layoffs and misery on its way for IT.

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1. JBytes

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   08/18, 04:39pm | report spam | close reply

   More Proof

   I'm still waiting for someone to show me this tablet market which I often read about. People do not want a tablet; they want an iPad.

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1. brainiac

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   08/18, 05:08pm | report spam | close reply

   Dont worry

   Microsoft can still save the tablet industry with their timely entry.

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1. brainiac

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   08/18, 05:10pm | report spam | close reply

   This is another sign

   That Mark Hurd was unraveling the business for temporary gain rather than enabling long term success. Unfortunately, only the employees were seeing it, not the markets.

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1. kerryb

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   08/18, 07:03pm | report spam | close reply

   silver lining

   Our friends over at Google must feel a little better about their latest
   mistake

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1. graxspoo

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   08/18, 08:05pm | report spam | close reply

   They don't know what they're doing

   This smacks of desperation. webOS is by far the most important piece of technology that HP has. I thought they might have been onto something with the idea of bundling it with every PC sold, maybe even making a way that Windows would exist sort-of inside webOS, so people could still run Windows apps, but would have a nicer experience overall. HP is a -hardware- company. Always has been. Thinking they can suddenly transition into a software company is crazy. They should have pushed harder and longer at making new hardware products based on webOS. It was a long shot, but this is suicide.

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1. Jonathan-Tanya

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   08/19, 11:14am | report spam | close reply

   iPad is the only good tablet so far

   You don't have to have the same absolute number of apps to compete with the iPad, but you do need more than - to pull a number at random, you need more than 300 apps, lol.....lets say you need at least 10,000 quality apps.
   
   And you do need quality hardware - meaning thinner and lighter than the iPad. And you do need it to be just as fast.
   
   Competition will emerge. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 - isn't a bad piece of hardware, but it failed to differentiate from the iPad in a positive way.
   
   7" is a nice form factor for e-readers - and if you look at e-readers they are much lighter and thinner than the iPad.
   
   So - you can carve out a market position with thinner, lighter, cheaper, with plenty of quality apps - and a top notch OS.
   
   It's a lot of things to do right - but I think its possible we'll see Amazon get all the points right - and have a hit with their upcoming tablet, much like B&N did have a best seller with the Color Nook (which does have an app store, btw).
   
   Amazon, more so than B&N is positioning the device as a tablet with an app store featured from the get-go.
   
   WebOS/Symbian are effectively killed - who's next? Probably QNX/Blackberry....after that Windows Phone, although MS can hang on forever with their desktop monopoly, so I won't be counting the days on that one.