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By 2011 Apple had launched iPhone 4s, Android manufacturers had sold 100M phones, and HP's latest and greatest mobile device looked like this - https://fdn2.gsm
by paxys 1y ago
By 2011 Apple had launched iPhone 4s, Android manufacturers had sold 100M phones, and HP's latest and greatest mobile device looked like this - https://fdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/hp/hp-ipaq-glisten-1.jpg https://fdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/hp/hp-ipaq-glisten-1.jpg.
They simply had been asleep at the wheel for too long. And even then, the correct move would have been to adopt Android instead of thinking you could build and control your own ecosystem (something they finally did in 2014).
- phonon 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Veer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Veer and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Pre_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Pre_3 could have been great, if they had been well supported.
- bluGill 1y agoIn early 2011 when I told people I had an Android they had no clue what I was talking about. A well done long term investment in other phones could have made a big difference - but HP wasn't willing to make it so we will never know. (Microsoft released their Windows phone in 2012, again killing it before it took off).
- thaumasiotes 1y ago> Microsoft released their Windows phone in 2012, again killing it before it took off That 2011 iPAQ has a Windows button. Wikipedia lists them as running "Windows Mobile".
- bluGill 1y agoI may remember my dates wrong... Close enough for this discussion though.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoNo, I think you're right. Wikipedia suggests that "Windows Phone" (the operating system) came out the following year, replacing Windows Mobile.
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- thaumasiotes 1y ago> By 2011 Apple had launched iPhone 4s, Android manufacturers had sold 100M phones, and HP's latest and greatest mobile device looked like this That looks just like a BlackBerry. What's the problem supposed to be? RIM sold 52 million of them that year. They're much easier to use than modern phones, because you don't need to touch the screen. The only advantage of the full-screen iPhone / Android style is that you have a bigger image when watching videos.
- throwanem 1y ago> What's the problem? https://www.statista.com/statistics/266240/blackberry-revenue/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/266240/blackberry-revenu...