

Android on TouchPad team dealt a setback in their efforts








TouchPad QuIC
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Sources: HP, PCWorld

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Someone hates the customer being right
By drycrust3 on 10/6/2011 4:28:57 PM , Rating: 4
Here we go again! The company that is the top selling computer maker in the world hating every moment of it. First they hated their profitable top selling PC division so much they want to sell it, then they hated the fact that Hurd had bought a mobile phone maker with their own OS so they could move smoothly into the easily foreseeable mobile future so much they just binned the whole thing.
Then, to make doubly sure everyone knew they hated selling computers they bought an overpriced software company that operates in the same market as Oracle and IBM, but they have all their clients tied up in long term contracts, so HP would get just meagre pickings for the next decade.
Of course, everyone at HP knows that in the next 4 years there are going to be around 500 million people begging for mobile computing devices, like smart phones and tablets, and they don't want to be part of that! WHAT? HAVE A SLICE OF YUMMY 500 MILLION SALES? BAH! HUMBUG!
Ok, so let us see who thinks this HP Tablet with Android on it is a good idea for a marketable product: Shareholders? Yep! Customers? Yep! Media Journalists? Yep! HP sales people? Yep! HP Engineers? Yep! Competitors? Nope! HP Board of Directors? NOPE!
If the HP Board of Directors want an indication of the path ahead of them if they keep up with their current nonsense, just look at Nokia: laying off staff left, right, and centre because no one is buying their out of date products.

By drycrust3 on 10/6/2011 4:42:25 PM , Rating: 2
Whoa! Look at that: Double post. Maybe the message needs to be said twice.

