[Discuss] HP Discards Touchpad and WebOS

[fbxxkl at gmail.com (Kyle Leslie)]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> Several sources confirm that the HP Touchpad is dead. This also includes
> all WebOS devices.
>
> http://www.slashgear.com/hp-discontinues-webos-handsets-touchpad-and-entire-ecosystem-18172793/
> Today HP <http://www.slashgear.com/tags/hp/> revealed that they would be
> announcing that it will completely discontinue operations for all webOS
> <http://www.slashgear.com/tags/webos/> devices. This affects the HP
> TouchPad <http://www.slashgear.com/hp-touchpad-review-29162207/> and all
> webOS handsets. This does not mean that webOS
> <http://www.slashgear.com/webos-3-0-review-30162203/> will be cancelled
> altogether and forever, though it certainly doesn?t bode well for those
> who?ve invested in the HP/webOS combination in the meantime. This comes
> after less than stellar sales on the TouchPad and a request from Best
> Buy for HP to take back all their tablets.
>
>

This is an article on HP moving towards Enterprise services and further away
from consumer desktops and products.

I believe I also saw something recently about BestBuy telling HP to take
back all of their TouchPads (not sure where though)

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/08/hp-may-get-out-of-pc-business-focus-on-software-services.ars

The ars article references the bloomberg one so I gave a link to that as
well.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-18/hp-said-to-be-near-10-billion-autonomy-takeover-spinoff-of-pc-business.html