{"id":1762,"date":"2011-08-22T12:57:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:57:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:57:48","slug":"hp-has-no-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2011\/08\/hp-has-no-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"HP has No Hope!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am quite sure that many people are now aware of HP killing their mobile devices and are looking to sell their Personal \/Systems Group.\u00a0 I have to admit that I was shocked, no not just surprised, shocked<\/strong>!\u00a0 By now many sites have posted the story and it can be found on This is my Next…<\/a> and other Tech News Sites.\u00a0 I have spent the weekend thinking about what has happened and trying to wrap my head around this story.\u00a0 I have heard that Leo Apotheker is an “Enterprise” Guy … meaning that is what he specializes in and has been doing for most of his career.\u00a0 Personally, I don’t think he has any vision.\u00a0 No ability to see outside of his little world.<\/p>\n

Mr. Apotheker, please don’t be offended, this is merely my opinion.\u00a0 Seriously, how could you take the 2nd best mobile OS [this is true and just for you Ryan] and put it on ice after weakly pitching it?\u00a0 How could you?\u00a0 do you not understand what is happening in the world with mobile computing?<\/p>\n

I loved my Palm IIIc and m515.\u00a0 They were great devices … they had problems, but they were the only real handheld for years<\/strong>!\u00a0 They are still being used by some people because they work well and had a simple and easy to use interface.\u00a0 They did lack a decent ecosystem and that was changed with webOS.\u00a0 Palm made beautiful changes to the operating system and several of my friends got Pre’s and Pixi’s.\u00a0 I was waiting on my contract to end so that I could move to an iPhone, by this point in time we had moved to Mac’s.\u00a0 Yet, I was interested, and I grabbed my father-in-laws or friends phone when I had the chance to site down and play with it [that means I was interested in learning about the device because of the OS].\u00a0 I was not impressed with the hardware.\u00a0 I to be honest still am not.\u00a0 The innovation of the pages concept and then the rumored and proven abilities of “tap to transfer”!\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 I thought, how awesome that would be if it could be worked across different systems and then HP bought them and then they finished what Palm had started.<\/p>\n

But they only finished what was started.<\/p>\n

At this point I need to change directions.\u00a0 What I was expecting when HP bought Palm was a rebirth of computing at HP and a move to actually compete with Apple.\u00a0 I saw a future with webOS running on laptops and desktops and mobiles similar to the way OS X has moved into the mobile space [now let’s not argue the semantics].\u00a0 I envisioned HP being able to dual boot Windows and webOS; and I was not the only person envisioning that happening.\u00a0 I believe, HP brought it up in the first place.\u00a0 I was starting to see a lightweight fast operating system that would be faster than Windows and as secure as the rest of them.\u00a0 I saw tablets, smartphones, touch handhelds [yes very similar to the iPod Touch]; and I saw an ecosystem being built or integrated, that would bring it to parity with Apple.\u00a0 I mean, the computers looked good and were well made [from my personal experience with them].\u00a0 HP could have spent more time on design even though this doesn’t seem to be a strong point.<\/p>\n

Many people know and understand that Apple claims to be a hardware company and they maintain a 30% margin on their hardware and give away the OS [remember that this is a company statement made by Apple].\u00a0 So, why couldn’t HP start to move in that direction … is it because Mr. Apotheker has no vision?\u00a0 Yeah, and neither do those that work for him.\u00a0\u00a0 I am so disappointed because Android as much as it is touted an competition to iOS; many technologists that I follow and read feel the same way that I do.\u00a0 Android was just a cheap, bad alternative.\u00a0 webOS was the real threat<\/strong> to iOS.\u00a0 It not only did things differently, but it also did them in a visually appealing way, similar to iOS.<\/p>\n

So, my request, Mr. Apotheker, is to bring me on board and give me 3 years before you actually shutter this HALF A BILLION business.\u00a0 Let me have a chance to bring back a group that is failing.\u00a0 I know I have vision and I have a desire to see some really good competition.<\/p>\n

iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am quite sure that many people are now aware of HP killing their mobile devices and are looking to sell their Personal \/Systems Group.\u00a0 I have to admit that I was shocked, no not just surprised, shocked!\u00a0 By now many sites have posted the story and it can be found on This is my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[339,6,723,591,364,690,550,226,294,206,188,199,691,224,722],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-concept","tag-droid","tag-friends","tag-hardware","tag-hp","tag-ipod-touch","tag-mobile-computing","tag-opinion","tag-os-x","tag-palm","tag-smartphones","tag-windows","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}