Apotheker is taking the pain upfront, and undoing the damage wrought by Fiorina and Hurd over the last decade. He only took over in November 2010, and had to ta

Apotheker is taking the pain upfront, and undoing the damage wrought by Fiorina and Hurd over the last decade. He only took over in November 2010, and had to take some time to look at the business, and give the WebOS launches a chance. But he's basically unwinding Fiorina's Compaq acquisition (as Michael Dell implied in his tweet yesterday), and Hurd's Palm/WebOS acquisition. HP used to have a core value of only being in businesses where it could be at the leading edge technologically. Tablets, smartphones and PCs are areas where it's been a copycat. Plus, Apotheker has likely identified as part of his review since starting (at the end of 2010) that consumer technologies aren't an area that it has a competitively differentiated core competence. [EDIT for typos/clarity]