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Expect an HP Tablet Not Based On Windows Any Day Now (Think WebOS)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 10:18AM
BAM!
HP has bought Palm for $1.2 billion dollars.
Wow.
Now that HP has such a valuable company in their hands, and a beautiful OS, what do they plan to do with it?
Yesterday I had the opportunity to extensively play with Steven Nay's Palm Pre (the only person at the Kynetx Impact Conference to have one) and the device, as well as the OS, is beautiful. Due to being surrounded by people with iPad's, I thought about how awesome it would be to have Palm's unique WebOS on a tablet/iPad like product with its beautiful multi-tasking.
I believe due to HP wanting to compete (and is, badly) in the tablet arena, a lack of an OS *designed* for touch, and the purchase of Palm with their amazing WebOS, we will be seeing some amazing tablets coming out of the gates of HP within the next year.
After all, WebOS is innovative, unique, and already has an app store (albeit a small one). With a tablet released on the WebOS platform and based on great HP hardware, I am willing to bet that the iPad will have a serious competitor. I am also going to go out on a limb here and say that die-hard iPad lovers would be willing to switch to the HP/WebOS based tablet. In its current form, WebOS, IMO, would be superior in a tablet form.
Now I know what you are thinking, "WHAT ABOUT THE APPS!". If HP can make a tablet based off of WebOS a success, you can bet your bottom dollar that developers will have no problem developing applications on the WebOS platform.
Of course, I could be completely wrong, but I doubt it in this case. HP wants to compete in the tablet market, and Windows 7 is simply not good enough, but WebOS is.
What else does Palm really have to give HP?
NOTE: Mathew Ingram seems to think so as well :D
HP has bought Palm for $1.2 billion dollars.
Wow.
Now that HP has such a valuable company in their hands, and a beautiful OS, what do they plan to do with it?
Yesterday I had the opportunity to extensively play with Steven Nay's Palm Pre (the only person at the Kynetx Impact Conference to have one) and the device, as well as the OS, is beautiful. Due to being surrounded by people with iPad's, I thought about how awesome it would be to have Palm's unique WebOS on a tablet/iPad like product with its beautiful multi-tasking.
I believe due to HP wanting to compete (and is, badly) in the tablet arena, a lack of an OS *designed* for touch, and the purchase of Palm with their amazing WebOS, we will be seeing some amazing tablets coming out of the gates of HP within the next year.
After all, WebOS is innovative, unique, and already has an app store (albeit a small one). With a tablet released on the WebOS platform and based on great HP hardware, I am willing to bet that the iPad will have a serious competitor. I am also going to go out on a limb here and say that die-hard iPad lovers would be willing to switch to the HP/WebOS based tablet. In its current form, WebOS, IMO, would be superior in a tablet form.
Now I know what you are thinking, "WHAT ABOUT THE APPS!". If HP can make a tablet based off of WebOS a success, you can bet your bottom dollar that developers will have no problem developing applications on the WebOS platform.
Of course, I could be completely wrong, but I doubt it in this case. HP wants to compete in the tablet market, and Windows 7 is simply not good enough, but WebOS is.
What else does Palm really have to give HP?
NOTE: Mathew Ingram seems to think so as well :D
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