Despite everything I still hope webOS succeeds.
Posts tagged WebOS
What to do with 245.000 TouchPads →
Shawn Blanc has some nice suggestion about what Best Buy should do with their 245.000 unsold TouchPads.
Some highlights:
- Printer promotion: buy an ink jet printer, get a free TouchPad.
- Turn the boxes upside down, move them closer to the Apple section of the store, and hope nobody notices.
- Open up the boxes and sell the USB cables for $25/each.
Disruptive →
Yesterdays news came as a big surprise to most if not all of us. Patrick Rhone summarizes it like this:
The iPad is causing such disruption in the PC business that HP, a company fundamental to the creation of the personal computer itself, is getting out of the PC business.
Who would have thought that would happen? Patrick also gives some solid advice:
Just like the iPad created a whole option, and thus, new market (the one you keep calling the “tablet market”), the only way to compete is not to get into that market but to create a whole new one. One that will suck the life out of the iPad market. Something so disruptive, so mind blowing, so magical that, like the iPad, people will form lines around the block for months to get it.
It’s a great post. You should read the whole thing.
Licensing webOS →
Ross Rubin:
That leaves LG. Once touted as Microsoft’s premiere hardware partner for Windows Phone 7, it was left out in the cold when the folks in Redmond signed their blockbuster deal with Nokia. LG has been behind Samsung in both the Android and burgeoning Windows Phone market, and is less of a threat in the laptop and printer market than Samsung. However, like Samsung, LG is a high-volume manufacturer of TVs, a complementary market for HP, which only dabbled in the TV market years ago.
A very interesting observation. I wasn’t really convinced licensing would be beneficial but if they were to go the licensing route LG would indeed be a perfect match.
webOS shuffle →
Nilay Patel:
Stephen DeWitt is now the senior vice president of webOS, replacing Jon Rubinstein, who’ll “assume a product innovation role” in HP’s Personal Systems Group, which encompasses webOS. DeWitt will be in charge of everything webOS from engineering to marketing, so this is a major change at the top
Not sure if this is a good thing but time will tell.
Shawn Blanc reviews the TouchPad →
Great very extensive review. I also like his title: “The HP TouchPad 1.0”. This is definitely a long term effort and there is lots more to come.
Wordpress for WebOS was just announced. Looks great! Best of all it’s all open-source.
