HP cancels webOS devices, exploring options for webOS [recap]
HP shutting down webOS device operations, will "continue to explore options"In a press release for the Q3 2011 earnings, HP dropped three bombshells: they’re looking to spend $10 billion in data management firm Autonomy, they’re exploring options to spin off or sell the computer-building Personal Systems Group, and they’re shutting down webOS hardware development with will “continue to explore options” of what to do with webOS the operating system. |
HP not willing to make the investments needed to drive webOS to greater marketshareFollowing the press release, HP held and investors conference call where they delivered their reasoning for cancelling webOS device operations: they crunched the numbers and the cost of gaining a significant marketshare was deemed too high. |
HP "not walking away from webOS," say execs at all-hands webOS GBU meetingBut just because they’re not going to be making webOS phones and tablets anymore doesn’t mean HP’s done with webOS overall. HP SVP, webOS GBU, Stephen DeWitt and VP PSG Todd Bradley held an all-hands meeting with the people involved in making, supporting, and selling webOS where they vowed that HP wasn’t just going to dump webOS. |
HP has neither balls nor brainsDerek gets what needed to be said off his chest. Seriously, HP, did you think this was going to be easy? |
HP begins TouchPad liquidation; 16GB cut to $99, 32GB $149And so it begins. |
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- TouchPad out of stock everywhere, orders cancelled, more on the way?
- Hulu finally blocks TouchPad owners from watching videos
- webOS OTA updates still coming; device warranties will still be honored
- PalmCast Episode 148 - Back to the Future
- webOS.O.S. - the campaign to save our platform
- Kerris: Quickoffice document editing due "this week"
- Coming Soon: TouchPad fire sale Part 2
- TouchPad fire sale hitting the UK today
- DeWitt: webOS still coming to PCs and printers, Pre3 launch limited to specific markets
- Switching away from webOS? SPE has you covered
- The accidental userbase
- Poll: Are you planning to switch away from webOS?
- TouchPad going out with a bang, snags top of Amazon bestselling list
- So, you just bought an HP TouchPad? Here's what you need next...
- Best Buy caves, will sell remaining TouchPad stock at steep discounts
- Video: HP Employee Strikes Back
- Video: How Hitler took the news
- Round Table: webOS developers chime in on HP axing device development
- Best Buy USA extends TouchPad returns to 60 days, no sales means no price matching
- Round Table: webOS developers chime in on HP axing device development
- Video: How Hitler took the news
- Video: HP Employee Strikes Back
- Kerris: work on webOS and app ecosystem will continue
- HP begins TouchPad liquidation; 16GB cut to $99, 32GB $149
- AT&T unsurprisingly cancels orders for Pre3
- Engadget interviews webOS chief Stephen DeWitt
- PreDoodle - Phone Alone?!
- HP shares down more than 20% in wake of yesterday's bloodletting
- 64GB White HP TouchPad now available on HP US - Well that's nice
- HP has neither balls nor brains
- Poll: What should HP do with webOS?
- HP tested webOS on an iPad, it ran twice as fast? Not so fast...
- Mobile Nations 5: A wedding and a funeral
- Could there be a suitor for webOS?
- Round Table: HP dumps webOS
- HP "not walking away from webOS," say execs at all-hands webOS GBU meeting
- HP not willing to make the investments needed to drive webOS to greater marketshare
- Live Blog: HP Earnings Call - Talking End of HP webOS Devices
- BREAKING: HP shutting down webOS device operations, will "continue to explore options"