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Come on, nothing had a chance to compete with the iPhone in 2011. By then Apple had released iPhone 5 (edit iPhone4S), a slick & snappy device with robust app e
by whatever1 1y ago
Come on, nothing had a chance to compete with the iPhone in 2011. By then Apple had released iPhone 5 (edit iPhone4S), a slick & snappy device with robust app ecosystem that everyone wanted (but most could not afford). There was no place for high end players.
Regardless of that CTOs ability to integrate HP and Palm, whatever they would build, it would be DOA. Unless if they tried to compete with the cheap android devices and race to the bottom for pennies at scale.
- jldugger 1y agoiPhone 4s shipped October 2011.
- whatever1 1y agoOh you are right, I remembered 4 was released in 2010, and my mind jumped to 5. But they were doing the s cycles back then.
- myvoiceismypass 1y agoAnd the first WebOS device launched was not 2011, it was actually the Palm Pre in 2009. The iPhone 3G and the App Store were not even a year old when that Pre launched.
- pipeline_peak 1y agoAs a high school freshman in 2009, I can confirm that no teen in the Northern VA area wanted that thing lol. They did however rave about Droid and iPhone.