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Holy shit.
It was crazy enough talk began leaking out last night that HP was spinning off their PC business — they’re the biggest PC maker in the world.
Now they’re winding down (read: killing off) webOS and killing off the Pre just-released TouchPad?
Yes, they have their large enterprise business. So essentially, HP is going to try to do the same move IBM did in the 1990s. It worked for IBM, will it work for HP?
More importantly, did HP really need to do this? Seems a little premature to me. Yes, the TouchPad was a flop. But we’re in the very early days of the mobile/tablet space. And again, HP rules the PC business.
With the webOS buy, HP had an opportunity to control an entire ecosystem — to be a true foil to Apple. Instead, they’re giving up and becoming an enterprise company.
Wow.
I think there’s no way this ends well.
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