HP: No, No, We ARE in the Smartphone Market
Yesterday, HP CEO Mark Hurd ruffled a few feathers by saying the company didn't buy Palm to get into the smartphone business. Rather, HP purchased Palm for the company's IP and WebOS and wants to put WebOS on tablets, netbooks and more.
However, it seems all the talk has Mark Hurd rethinking his statement. Despite admitting at the time that "it doesn't seem to resonate well" when he tells people HP didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business, the HP CEO was last night retracted his remarks about not wanting to be in the smartphone business.
Hurd said in a statement (via Engadget) that they yes, will be putting WebOS on pretty much every web-conntected device they can get their hands on, but that includes smartphones.
When we look at the market, we see an array of interconnected devices, including tablets, printers, and of course, smartphones. We believe webOS can become the backbone for many of HP's small form factor devices, and we expect to expand webOS's footprint beyond just the smartphone market, all while leveraging our financial strength, scale, and global reach to grow in smartphones.
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He bought them for the OS, but is in the Smartphone market due to it.
Makes sense.
Dear HP,
First of all, damn well update your phones and provide fixes for your shoddy phones.
One phone in particular, http://tinyurl.com/3x6tppw , really, really sucked in such a way that we, as a company, stopped buying your phones. Not only did you name the phone the same as previous phones, your tech support denied that it even existed. Looking at your support forum provided a few laughs as people realised that functions of the phone simple failed to work.
P.s. Love the 850 printer models.