Hewlett-Packard to Decide webOS Fate by Mid-December
Hewlett-Packard's new woman in charge, Meg Whitman, told a French newspaper that it's no easy task deciding what to do with HP's webOS division, but that a decision would be made one way or the other within the next two weeks. Part of what makes the decision so difficult is that there's a team of 600 people working with webOS at HP.
AllThingsD dug up the interview, which has been translated in full via Google Translate here. Whitman touched on a number of topics, including what prompted HP to reverse course and keep its PC business. According to Whitman, it would have cost HP $1 billion to sever its PC arm. On top of that, "the impact on our revenues would have been too high." And finally, Whitman said "the HP brand is indisputably linked to our PC."
Back to the topic of webOS and tablets, Whitman promises to a return to the tablet market with a Windows 8 slate in 2012. She also said that tablets are not yet comparable to PCs primarily because tablets are "mainly used to consume media and emails," and are poor substitutes for productivity chores.
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mini6090
November 30, 2011 at 11:21am
600 people are employed with the WebOS division... that must be the best job in the world, despite the complete lack of job security, if you worked there you obviously wouldn't be doing anything. I have the pre2 and NOTHING is happening, no software updates or even information in general, all developers are releasing absolute crap applications, and if you check out palm.com, HP almost denies the products even existed with only a community and support tab. I hacked droid onto my touchpad, and i never cared for droid before (and i certainly can't stand iOS) however, after being treated like crap from a company like HP did, i really can't see myself sticking around much longer considering the track record here. Even though droid updates are few and far between and more heard about then seen, at least they're trying. I've seen this exact story for the same 8 months... HP, just do us a favor and hand it over to a company with time and the ability to do something.
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