New VP of webOS and Carrier Markets, Jukka Tiitu, hired for Europe, Middle East and Africa 18
With a rich background managing a number of markets and sales channels of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at Nokia, Jukka Tiitu has been hired by Hewlett-Packard to do the same for webOS and Carrier Markets in the widely untapped region. What does this mean for you? A lot, actually, even if you don't live in those regions.
As more markets are added into the mix, more countries and regions, customers and developers, apps and mindshare will all be thrown in as well. We can only hope that the act of HP hiring Jukka Tiitu means that the scale they've been going on about for the last year will finally be put into larger play, and our friends in previously unsupported countries will finally get some of that goodness that is webOS.
No doubt, the developers of Carbon webOS and others will be excited to hear what Tiitu will be doing in the coming months. Stay tuned, there could be some more good news coming our way from this addition to the leadership at HP.
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good stuff to come.
@Tim, you must know that "in the coming months" is vulgar in these parts. ;-)
As is "stay tuned" *g*
But good to hear this. By simply offering webOS-phones worldwide HP can sell a few millions of them even without having to win significant or uneasy wins.
I'm curious as to the callout for Carbon. Is there something specifically related to Carbon that this new hire brings to bear? I don't see what it is.
Carbon's developer hails from the UAE.
As much as I understand the developers of Carbon are from the Arabian Peninsula ;)
People, please read the following article on HP's approach to cloud computing and how webOS and Windows based devices will fit in there, at least security wise, and others wont.
http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/20110509/seven-questions-for-prith-b...
And I thought HP's sole purpose was to make my next phone & to get it here yesterday!!! :-)
Great article. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I learned a lot about the technology, the security, and where HP is headed.
Thanks for this great article. Nice to see webOS being thrown in at the end, shows that HP is actually working on making webOS a major part of their cloud infrastructure on the mobile OS side of things.
Hopefully when the TouchPad & Pre3 comes out, we will be able to enjoy those cloud storage spaces that was mention in the article.
Im also believing that HP does have a plan to bring webOS to scale, and market it to the enterprise consumers like crazy. WebOS could very well become the new blackberry for the enterprise world.
Good news, now I can happily stay tuned knowing there might be a launch in previous not supported countries.
haha Tiitu
Fingers crossed for webOS reaching South Africa:) I've seen one ad a few months ago showing off HP's printers and at the end a Pre was flashed. Was a proud little moment.
If this guy was in charge of Nokias Mind/Market share in Europe, Middle East and Africa, basically the regions where Nokia is dominating the market, then hopefully that will mean a shift in tides towards webOS devices in the same regions.
Eurotrash here we come!
very astute security article in the link
What a great job to have. You really don't have to do much.
I hope HP finally realise that the Netherlands is also a country in Europe. So we can expect webOS devices in stores soon?
Being from Europe myself, let me explain you few simple things, guys:
Nokia didn't built it's dominant position in EMEA thanks to funnily named positions, held by suit-wearing corporate models like the above pictured gentleman. They have built it by releasing phones (something that HPalm is doing not), that were appealing to the broad range of consumers (something that WebOS never managed, somehow, and most of the readers here knows the reasons, but apparently not HPalm), and most of all, that were practical and ergonomic (check), robust (buahahaha, HPalm!), and more advanced technologically than the competition (erm... well... you know by yourself about that one).
Once they ceased doing the above, it marked the start of their decline. The handsome nicely looking man pictured above, together with all his sales forces & marketing bull$hitters at his disposal apparently weren't able to enchant the reality, and Nokia is a non-player in smartphone market of today (previous very loyal Nokia user speaking here, including couple of Symbian-based smartphones of the time when iPhone didn't even crossed Steve's minds yet)
Now, seeing the trend of all the NOkia write-offs drifting to HPalm, it doesn't bode well for the future.
Night night, sleep tight, HPalm!