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After purchasing Palm, putting webOS on smartphones and tablets, and then giving up, it seems that HP has finally decided it needs to offer a smartphone. Pressured on the point in an interview with Fox Business, HP’s CEO Meg Whitman said that the company “ultimately has to offer a smartphone.” But when, where, how, and what are still up in the air.
There’s also the tidy little problem that saying you need to make a smartphone in 2012 is like saying you need to build a cotton gin in 1953. And with webOS in the refuse pile, Windows Phone struggling to get a foothold, and Android being an over-saturated mess dominated by a few major players, it’s hard to see where HP will fit in. Probably developing countries, probably with something cheap and forgettable, throwing elbows with RIM over commoditised crap. HP has to offer a smartphone, sure. But that doesn’t mean anyone’s going to take them up on it. [Fox Business via Engadget]
In the meantime in Cupertino.. Seems like we are gonna have an another ass in the mud to sue !
Why are most non-Apple tech articles on Gizmodo dripping with mocking or condescending sarcasm?
Apple brown nosing perhaps? Most Gizmodo writers seem to be Apple fans.
I’m not even sure how an “oversaturated mess” is possible for Android. Phones need software to work. Android is free. Phones use Android. Is there such a thing as too much Android?
It’s not like the mobile market is a competition to end users. If people need a phone to fulfil a certain requirement, they’ll buy one. The OS very rarely factors into the decision.
Free?
yes free, as in you do not pay for the software and its open source and you can do pretty much anything you want to it. you dont actually even need a phone to run android just download the free sdk and you can run it in the emulator on your pc.
that said some parts are closed source depending on the device in question, usually hardware drivers for things like the GPU are closed source
http://www.dailytech.com/Of+Lawsuits+and+Licensing+The+Full+Microsoft+v+Android+Story/article23088.htm
I didn’t think there was anything wrong with WebOS personally, i think they should try again with it but wait until the home coders cut down on the amount of code, make it faster, quicker, more efficient, improve on everything