HP not interested in the mobile phone market, only to Palm WebOS
Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd makes for a big surprise: His company has not taken account of the Palm smartphone business, but because of the operating system WebOS. The business of smartphones is not interested Hewlett-Packard.
End of April, Hewlett-Packard (HP), the financially ailing company for Palm 1.2 billion U.S. dollars accepted. The acquisition was approved by the U.S. competition authorities and, indeed.
Now, HP CEO Mark Hurd surprised with the statement that the business at all to have no interest with Palm smartphones. The reported zdnet.com. Palm was acquired only because of the intellectual property, webOS primarily because the operating system. Allegedly, he had said this before, but that he should have found no hearing. Now is puzzled as to when Mark Hurd should have mentioned it.
With HP webOS would provide all possible devices to have a uniform basis. Have already announced printers and tablet computers with webOS. Just to set the step for tablet computers, not on Windows, but on webOS is certainly not a bad decision.
However, the market for smartphones, the HP is so far relatively weak set, large growth rates. Not only the major mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung, HTC and Motorola are investing large sums. Even computer manufacturers such as Acer are getting in on the lucrative market. Google has been active this year with the Nexus One and Apple owes much of its record profits to the iPhone.
Therefore, it was broad lack of understanding that HP is not the smartphone business Palm interested. The much acclaimed operating system, which many experts webOS as the only real competitor to iPhone OS. Even the Palm Smartphones and Palm Pré Pixi often been praised by experts. What was missing Palm, was above all the financial resources and structures for distribution, as it has HP.
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