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HP didn't have a chance - they don't have the software DNA that Google, Apple and Microsoft have. Microsoft is the underdog here but they have a much better ch
by nonane 15y ago
HP didn't have a chance - they don't have the software DNA that Google, Apple and Microsoft have.
Microsoft is the underdog here but they have a much better chance of making something happen.
- rbanffy 15y agoAll Apotheker had to do was to continue funding the development of WebOS devices. HP bought the DNA they needed and Apotheker threw it out.
- Apocryphon 15y agoI can't believe Apotheker made such stridently pro-webOS comments just a month ago about how much HP is behind the platform, just to pull the rug from underneath.
- megablast 15y agoThe consummate business person: It is all about the numbers.
- technoslut 15y agoI'm not so sure. There were many of the WebOS team that left immediately after the acquisition. The true tragedy of HP had occurred well before Apotheker.
- rbanffy 15y agoIndeed. Apotheker is the symptom, not the root cause. But even if smoking caused the tumor, part of the treatment is removing it.
- technoslut 15y agoI would agree. The main problem at HP has been the board which has destroyed this company. They've hired the worst CEO's possible for the past fifteen years. They've gone to one of the most respected companies in the world to a laughing stock among many business people. Maybe all that they have left is the business sector but they will be far less successful than IBM.
- barista 15y agoYou never buy DNA. It has to be there in you. Tell me one example who bought a plaform in and made it successful. HP never had a chance. Leo was dreaming when he bought WebOS. I'm glad the dream is over sooner than later.
- hboon 15y agoGoogle + Android.
- jsnell 15y agoHe didn't buy WebOS. It was the previous CEO.
- nitrogen 15y agoTell me one example who bought a plaform in and made it successful. This is the kind of discussion that seems interesting on the surface but in reality has little substance, but here's your one example: QDOS->MSDOS.
- rbanffy 15y agoAre you comparing an OS a single guy wrote with WebOS?
- nitrogen 15y agoAre you comparing an OS a single guy wrote with WebOS? ...and here we go down the rabbit hole. If I answer your question, which expands the scope of discussion beyond what the GP post was requesting and beyond the scope of my comment, then you respond, and I respond again, by the end of the thread we could be discussing the relative merits of tuna versus salmon. I was responding with a specific counterexample to a specific point (which I quoted) raised in the original post. Nothing more. Or, if you prefer a one-word answer: "yes." Now, I'm going to leave this thread to its proper place in my mind, which is to say, out of it :).
- rbanffy 15y ago