HP is Not Interested in Making Smartphones
Yesterday, Hewlett-Packard's chief executive Mark Hurd said that his company didn't buy Palm with the intention of entering the smartphone business, but rather his company has plans to use the newly acquired technology to fuel "small form factor web-connected devices." Hurd added that HP is not going to spend the time or money attempting to enter in the smartphone business as another contedor. "That doesn't in any way make any sense," he said. "We didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business…we bought it for the IP [intellectual property]. The webOS is one of the two groound-up pieces of software that is built as a web operating environment." There are speculations about whether or not the company will look towards other mobile operating systems for their yet-to-be-produced handsets, and that HP is considering producing mobile tablets. However, if HP really doesn't plan on entering the smartphone market than that means one less competitor for Apple, though it is a difficult market to avoid considering that the mobile handset industry has shifted towards smartphones. Via AppleInsider
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