{"id":6561,"date":"2011-08-18T22:54:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T05:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2011-08-18T22:54:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T05:54:15","slug":"what-would-the-future-be-like-for-hp-and-webos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/08\/18\/what-would-the-future-be-like-for-hp-and-webos\/","title":{"rendered":"What would the future be like for HP and webOS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another big news came out this week. HP to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/08\/18\/us-hp-iv-idUSTRE77H6IM20110818\" target=\"_blank\">put its webOS hardware on hold and plans to spin off its PC business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.palm.com\/distribution\/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=17510\" target=\"_blank\">webOS Developer Forums<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>folks, I know it&#8217;s tough, but try to relax a bit. I&#8217;m working to get you as much information as I can as fast as I can. All I can say right now is that is that I don&#8217;t see this as bad for webOS.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would HP strike deals with hardware manufacturers to license webOS?<\/p>\n<p>The TouchPad, HP&#8217;s first webOS tablet ales figure is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/11\/08\/18\/hp_eats_100_million_charge_to_cover_unsold_stockpile_of_touchpads.html\" target=\"_blank\">disappointing<\/a>. Best Buy is reportedly only sold 25,000 units out of the 250,000 units shipped to the big box retailer.<\/p>\n<p>HP is also looking into spinning off its PC business. Apparently high sales number doesn&#8217;t really translate into high profit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>I for one was looking into getting <a href=\"http:\/\/h41112.www4.hp.com\/promo\/webos\/us\/en\/smartphone\/pre3.html\" target=\"_blank\">HP Pre3<\/a>, unfortunately HP is getting out of the mobile hardware business before it&#8217;s actually released in the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/eurostore.palm.com\/epages\/Store.sf\/secfVPIATqln7E\/?ObjectPath=\/Shops\/PalmStore\/Products\/HP-FB437AA-ABU\" target=\"_blank\">HP Pre3 is now available in Europe<\/a> right before HP announced its discontinuation.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what the future be like for HP and webOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another big news came out this week. HP to put its webOS hardware on hold and plans to spin off its PC business. From webOS Developer Forums: folks, I know it&#8217;s tough, but try to relax a bit. I&#8217;m working to get you as much information as I can as fast as I can. All &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/08\/18\/what-would-the-future-be-like-for-hp-and-webos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What would the future be like for HP and webOS?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[1439,936,3182],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-hp","tag-tech","tag-webos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1HP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}