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 Originally Posted by Kupe
HP has had access to webOS as long as any other developer has (~18 months). HP has known they were going to purchase Palm for almost a year. HP has owned Palm for over 8 months.
Regarding Palm and HP in the mobile device business, the answer to this question would have to be "unknown to date."
What are you basing this opinion on, your vast experience in the mobile device market? I'm guessing you don't work for Motorola since they're popping out new, award-winning android devices about once per quarter. Same with Samsung. ...and HTC. Maybe the real issue is Palm never quite had the secret sauce for this business and HP is a slow, stumbling giant.
Hey kupe, calm down man. I was trying to give hope to the webos faithful. I have an iPad, will be passing that on and getting the iPad 2, and the HP Touchpad when available.
In regard to my opinion, yeah it's an opinion, if I had a link I would have posted it. All I can go by is the different leaks on the iPhone 4, at various stages info was leaked, like iphone 4 showing up on certain companies weblogs; parts manufacturers leaking parts, case manufacturers leaking cases. These things happen in stages and at certain times in the year.
The first month after a merger, sale, acquisition there is political posturing, integration, systems being integrated so they can talk to one another. During the first and second months people are looking to keep their jobs and managers are looking to who is being kept and who is not. These are things I have experienced, 5 times. Was it like this for HP/Palm? I don't know I was not there. It could have been.
Then you have do develop a plan. Then there is design. I don't know, do you think HP/Palm only came up with one proto type? How much time does it take to lock up all your part manufactures, a month? Two? Since there was no touch only webos device, how much additional time was used to perfect that? How much time was alloted to field testing.
It's for these questions my opinion is that 9 months is not allot of time.
Not sure by what you mean that HP has had access to webos as long as any developer. Is there a link for HP planned to buy Palm for for almost a year? Didn't realize that but planning to buy and owning the OS is two different things.
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