Clearly Palm needed some deeper pockets to go up against Apple. Surely HP needed some fresh ideas and products for the mobile space.
http://bit.ly/97BfGj Carl W. Brooks "Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission." ~ Zig Ziglar Enjoy helping people make technology decisions? Me too. I used to do it for FREE and now I GET PAID when I help them now. Wow! Learn how: http://tr.im/acncupis http:www.techloyal.com http://www.palmloyal.com On Apr 29, 2010 12:01 AM, ldouglas <[email protected]> wrote: that. is. AWESOME. On 4/28/10, Tony Cooke <[email protected]> wrote: > TechCrunch has a great article where they interview Brian Humphries, > HP’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development (that > is a serious title right there). > > Here is a great quote: > > “This is a great opportunity to take two Silicon Valley idols and > put them together,” Humphries noted. That’s an obvious statement, but he > quickly moved on to the meat. “WebOS is the best-in-class mobile > operating system. Our intent is to double down on webOS,” Humphries said. > > Dude…seriously? These quotes are what every webOS developer had ever > wanted to hear. Check this one out: > > I asked Humphries to expand a bit about webOS and how it stacks up > to rival mobile OSes made by Apple and Google. I also asked why HP > wouldn’t just develop its own mobile OS as Apple has done? “We think > it’s one of the best operating systems out there today. We see nothing > in development in the next 3 to 5 years that comes close,” Humphries > said. “We want to take HP’s financial strength and use it to take webOS > to the next level,” he continued. > > “We’ll compete aggressively in the market with Apple and Google. > We’ve got our hands on a very compelling operating system,” Humphries > concluded. He also noted that the plan is to keep it as open and > friendly to developers as it has been. > > WebOS is gonna explode folks…and you have a front row seat. Man this is > exciting. > > We are still coming up with our thoughts on all of this… we will have > our ever popular analysis soon. > > http://www.webosroundup.com/2010/04/hp-doubling-down-on-webos/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+webosroundup+%28webOSroundup%29 > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/treo/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/treo/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
