I noticed from the piece I read that there's still an opening for the
Pre to be part of the continuum. Maybe improve on it as the OS improves,
without coming out with whole other lines of phones. But it's pretty
easy to read it the other way, too - that now they've got the OS, they
gonna take it other places and eventually drop the phone altogether.
After all, HP never has been in the phone biz.
On 6/3/2010 8:15 AM, Joel S wrote:
> The Palm acquisition had nothing to do with being in the smartphone
> business. Hurd said that the company isn't going to "spend
> billions of dollars trying to go into the smartphone business; that
> doesn't in any way make any sense."
> Read more at ZDNet
> <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-ceo-mark-hurd-talks-datacenters-networ\
> king-and-palm/35312
> <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-ceo-mark-hurd-talks-datacenters-networking-and-palm/35312>>
>
> . via Precentral
> <http://www.precentral.net/hp-ceo-we-didnt-buy-pal-mto-be-smartphone-bus\
> iness
> <http://www.precentral.net/hp-ceo-we-didnt-buy-pal-mto-be-smartphone-business>>
>
> and Engadget
> <http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/hp-ceo-we-didnt-buy-palm-to-be-in-th\
> e-smartphone-business/
> <http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/hp-ceo-we-didnt-buy-palm-to-be-in-the-smartphone-business/>>
>
> .
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*John Messeder*
Journalist / Social Anthropologist
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