You could look at it another way, HP is expanding into more software services / enterprise tech. They're probably going to spend a lot more money in this secto

You could look at it another way, HP is expanding into more software services / enterprise tech. They're probably going to spend a lot more money in this sector than they used to, thus expanding the product catalog. Granted, killing WebOS means somewhat shrinking the product catalog, but there weren't that many WebOS devices out there anyway, nor much prospect of selling them for the original asking price. If HP sees a much larger market in enterprise tech, going into that while killing the tiny market of WebOS devices is worthwhile and doesn't violate point number 10.