[Discuss] HP Discards Touchpad and WebOS

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 08/18/2011 04:14 PM, Kyle Leslie wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org
> <mailto: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
>
>
The Best Buy thing was included at the bottom of my quote.

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