HP doubles down on Palm’s webOS
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Some thoughts on Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Palm:
Palm, a pioneer in the smartphone business, was acquired for $1.2 billion by Hewlett-Packard this week. With this deal, the battle of the smartphone market just got edgier and more interesting. Responding to questions on the announcement, Vice President of Hewlett-Packard’s Personal Systems Group Todd Bradley said the market for mobile phones is “large, profitable and growing.” HP sees smartphones as a “very early stage market” and wants to compete with its own product.
Check out the live blog on HP’s announcement at The Wall Street Journal.
Initial media reactions:
Long story short, HP just (re)entered the mobile space in a major way. And look for webOS eventually to be used across the range of HP products. – TechCrunch
It's clear that smartphones are becoming better and better at replacing full-fledged computers for many tasks, and Dell and HP clearly don't want to be forgotten when everyone is debating Andoid or iPhone with the same vigor once saved for OS X vs. Windows. We say: Bring it on. - Switched
-Subhi Andrews
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