HP's Lack of Invention is Why webOS Failed

[legacy7955]

The truly tragic thing about HP is that the majority of its employees are dedicated to excellence, it is the almost criminal executive leadership and the BoD that have constantly damaged it for years now. I almost get the feeling that this may be sabotage of some sort. Corporate malfeasance anyone?

 

[Guest]

This is HP's second biggest blunder, first one being when they failed to recognize Steve Wozniak's invention....look how much it cost them in the long run

HP, to me, has always been a corporate wanna be, first they wanted to copy IBM in the enterprise segment, now they wanted to copy Apple in the consumer segment.

And i believe that MICROSOFT WINDOWS is slowly killing(stagnating) the PC market(for hardware manufacturers)......think about it.....all pc brands pre-install windows, for casual/business users its all the same.....there is no differentiation between the brands....M$ is actually killing innovation

Linux would give you differentiation, but no one has the balls to go for it......u dont even have to develop it urself.....just go with ubuntu(this blog was written from ubuntu 11.04)

Nokia also made a similarly big blunder by dumping Meego for WP7. I personally use a Dell Venue Pro, its an ok phone(I bought it for the form factor not the OS), but even I'd admit that Meego was head and shoulders above the others in terms of capabilities.

 

[bebangs]

Look at that! People will buy if the price is right.

i'm buying it at $100-$150 price.

 

[belardo]

With the cheap materials and cost of constructions and the Low-brand quality of the HP name. They should have sold the tablet for $300... Profit would have been nil, like their desktops. BUT, it would have given them a fighting chance against iOS and Android.

Check all stores for pricing... $100 seems to be the norm to clear out the inventory quick.

 

[captaincharisma]

This is HP's second biggest blunder, first one being when they failed to recognize Steve Wozniak's invention....look how much it cost them in the long run

HP, to me, has always been a corporate wanna be, first they wanted to copy IBM in the enterprise segment, now they wanted to copy Apple in the consumer segment.

And i believe that MICROSOFT WINDOWS is slowly killing(stagnating) the PC market(for hardware manufacturers)......think about it.....all pc brands pre-install windows, for casual/business users its all the same.....there is no differentiation between the brands....M$ is actually killing innovation

Linux would give you differentiation, but no one has the balls to go for it......u dont even have to develop it urself.....just go with ubuntu(this blog was written from ubuntu 11.04)

Nokia also made a similarly big blunder by dumping Meego for WP7. I personally use a Dell Venue Pro, its an ok phone(I bought it for the form factor not the OS), but even I'd admit that Meego was head and shoulders above the others in terms of capabilities.

MS is killing innivation? really? CPU's are getting more cores and faster apeeds, GPU's are getting better and now packed in with the CPU, faster bus speeds and hard grives getting bigger,

do you want me to go on?

if this was right we would still be on slow single core CPU's with only 2GB of ram out there because that is all windows calls for

 

[captaincharisma]

With the cheap materials and cost of constructions and the Low-brand quality of the HP name. They should have sold the tablet for $300... Profit would have been nil, like their desktops. BUT, it would have given them a fighting chance against iOS and Android.

Check all stores for pricing... $100 seems to be the norm to clear out the inventory quick.

that doesn't matter now. they didn't even try to sell it at the price they launched it at. now all the early adopters have nothing but a tablet that can barley do anything. and what developers are going to waste time on building apps for a tablet OS that now will not be used by even 1% of the tablet user base

 

[user_ace]

Hate to be the one to say it, but this latest HP blunder could be really good for Lenovo. If they can leverage their products in such a way so as to capitalize on HP's demise, they can solidify themselves as the #2 PC maker for consumers and businesses alike (behind Dell).

Hey, it's a dog-eat-dog world out there!!!

 

[Guest]

nice articke. I am impressed how well it adapts to many other big companies. I worked in the Spanish IPTV biggest opator, we had a webtv, social platform back in 2000 that was unique in the world. Back then there were no smartphones, no iphone, no ipad.... but we had web enabled set top boxes with enail, hd video on demand, etc etc.

Asbsoon as it was proposed to be turned into a product, the structure if the corporation engulfed our fantastic teams. Bosses were tempted with corporate smoke, power fihts energed, man-in'the-middles were born everyday and to justify themselves made crazy design decisions...

Today? our beloved platform has of course died, and the brilliant, pioneer iptv engineers are unmotivated with routine jobs, if not left the company. Add to the mix that Spain is not US and you can well realise why we're moving in 25%s unemployment rate. Corporations kill motivation and innovation, but at least in the U.S. you have options. Here we don't.