Intel snuggles up to Todd Bradley, but gets the cold shoulder 24
While the mobile device market grows drastically each month, some hardware companies that once found comfort in larger personal computing devices are now feeling a bit of a pinch as their customers, like HP and others, start looking elsewhere to fill certain needs. Intel Corp is certainly feeling that pinch as they try to put their chipset in more mobile devices like tablets and smartphones, and so you can see why they might need to make some drastic moves to get into a game where their competitors are getting some confidence
Enter Todd Bradley, former CEO of Palm and current executive of HP's personal computing division, as the answer that Intel needs to begin to secure a spot in the mobile device market. At least, he would have been the answer they were looking for had Bradley actually accepted their offer. As it is, Todd will remain at HP to do what he does best without so much as a hint at being interested in a position at Intel (even if that means the future shot at CEO of the company).
What does all of this mean for webOS users, though? Well, you can imagine that if Intel is wooing the man who strongly backed the acquisition of Palm by HP, they want to get some more rapport with smartphone and tablet builders to get their chips in those devices. Without someone who has had a great amount of experience in that field, we may very well see a change in the type and quality of devices they supply to. Which, once you get down the line far enough, could eventually lead to some very nice processing power for future webOS devices.
Of course, that's all speculation spurred off of one small bit of news of a failed change of hands in the mobile tech world. We can take one thing from this news, though: Todd Bradley believes in the future of webOS enough to stick with the company that builds it. If that doesn't give us some confidence for where webOS is going, there's little else that will (besides, you know, released devices for all major carriers - or so says most webOS fans).
Source: The Wall Street Journal; Thanks Tom!
24 Comments
Intel mobile Cpu are not powerful, and waste allot of energy, but it don't matter ARM is planning to move in the desktop sector and have a good change to be a threat to intel, Intel need to mobile sector to keep up it's dominance, but will fail due to the lack of experience in that area.
Intel is doing just fine. The resources that company has are phenomenal. If they want to make chips that are competitive in the smartphone/tablet market, they will. An Intel executive with whom I spoke last fall suggested that Intel will have reached parity (in terms of technology, not sales volume) with the likes of the ARM manufacturers within 5 years. With the explosion of tablet computing I wouldn't be surprised if that development progress were sped up in the near future.
Don't worry about Intel, they'll be alright.
Let us remind the masses that Bradley is nowhere near Jobs in terms of revolutions. They won't be missing much.
Great news. Can June come soon enough? The future looks bright, but as a long time WebOS user I'm growing tired of waiting for the future.
it's always been, those who wait shall receive. But we have gotten nothing special in a long long long time. 2.1 isn't all that great. Pre 2 should of came out last year. And a good OS is one that doesn't thrive on homebrew patches, and hacks. WebOS is amazing but damn..
Smart move for Bradley. CPUs are a commodity and he's currently leading a technology initiative that has the potential to be disruptive.
disruptive to who..
LOL, its users. TMC errors on a WebOS PC!
If their future o/s products are anything like HP bloatware of the past, this wont live long.
surprised indeed if they offered him a decent incentive to join intel and he declined. as for loyalty to palm or webos, todd is above that silliness. loyalty is for the feeble minded masses.
Therefore, this should be no surprise. It may not be about money. He may see a greater opportunity to make something interesting happen where he is.
zzZZZzzZzZzZZZZZzzzzz....sorry, I can't seem to remember why I keep checking this site everyday. HP Presto 3 maybe? or the HP pad of Touch? Veestro? I don't know, oh well. Hope to see some new WebOS devices soon, whatever they were called.
nothing against precentral btw, you guys are great. just about ready to give up though.
i just did last night... my pre broke in half (separated the screen from the slider) and had to activate a spare android phone i had. i am really tire of replacing pres (that was my 5th and last) oh well, it was fun while it lasted. EVO 3D here i come in a few months :D
I gotta check out the 3D. My current three for April to run head to head are Evo Shift, Nexus S and whatever Win7 can scrape up at that time. I need sling, Qsee and docs editting. Been way to long since I turned off my Treo and started compromising.
Maybe money wasnt good enough, or after Palm he didnt want to be a CEO
good for him.
now where is the 2.0 update for my pre+?
lol, cptnjarhead has the right attitude. Are we supposed to be proud of Bradley? And it's obsurd to think that he would do anything now when the major product players haven't even been released yet, why would he want to scare the investors? But I wouldn't be surprised if you referenced this story later in the year when it's possible that Rubby and Bradley will evaluate other options. A strong backing for the future does not empty its cache of lead designers and pioneers of an OS through the course of a transition.
add me to the list of those that love the precentral and homebrew crowd but I am also about to give up. And it's not because I can't wait till summer for a new phone. I'm a launch day pre- user. It is the fact that next time I want a new hpalm phone I will most likely have to wait a year longer than I should have too again. I am tired of being promised stuff (aka flash. Aka 2.0. Aka hardware ready within weeks of announcement) with no come through. I have waited too long and have had too many promises broken. The evo 3D is looking really really good right now.
there is absolutely nothing wrong with abandoning a platform in favor of another. As a consumer you have an open allegiance to whatever suits your needs and your life. You can always go back.
There ARE great things about webos, but you'll find too that they are great things about others as well. Remind yourself that it is a phone and your life will adjust accordingly.
yup my last 5th and last pre just bit the dust and i think i want the EVO 3D too. its not even the fact that it has a 3D screen (not that i mind it) the specs on that phone are epic and it will prob be released b4 the pre3
I think Todd Bradley rocks and is a great speaker...comes across as a person of action! Who know really how effective he is with HP, but you don't get where he is sitting on your hands and doing nothing.
SPAM...problem??? Sorli...
Sorry, giving my two weeks notice. The wait is over. Didn't want to buy a Pre3 without test driving 2.x on my Pre, as promised. And certainly not waiting until September to sign a contract that locks me into 3G service until September of 2013! WTF?
For now, Android is the place for me. Docs,sling, 4G, even voice memos. It will be like the trusty Treo on steroids with a twin turbo added on. I'll just be closing my 11yr Palm account and write off the bad "make it right" debt Leo and Jon owe me. Sometime it's just better to pay a new crook than stay with the old one. Who knows, Android has done a better job delivering on Palm's promises. New Years was too late, CES was too late, Feb 9 had more bad news than good. March 22 brings a rumor for one product release, but as we've learned, no guarantee.
No carriers, no developer support, nothing for the users. No more waiting, now the hard part is "choosing".
If he left now what signal ya think that would send to the world...'another overboard for the Palmtanic'?
Plus I would imagine he's not a stupid man and knows he can jump ship when HP fail to take the phone market by storm in 6 months anyway.
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interesting