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I doubt they are going to stop making phones, I think what they where trying to say is this: We didn't spend 1.2 dollars to buy a companies, then spend more money to get into the smartphone business. What we did is spend 1.2 billion to have a platform we can call our own. Use it across table its, printers, and cellphones, so users don't have to keep learning new os's...
I think what he meant to say (and i expect some clarification soon), is that the smartphone business alone wasn't worth 1.2 billion to hp. But when you have that, and all these other markets, it makes it one heck of a deal.
Although i still consider this bad news.. Cause apple, and google are strong, and microsofts making it's way into the market again, And is going for consumers this time. Meanwhile the business end of things has been monopolized by a company with an unfriendly outdated operating system. If hp spend resources giving web-os the needed features, then it could easily gain business share. Then have a program like itunes letting users, and families use one bough app on multiple devices. So you start getting what apple has with itunes, and it's the dominos effect. One person in the family gets it, so the rest get it to. With business, and consumer smartphones, tablets, printers, and god knows what it would start spreading pretty quickly.
But ignoring the smartphone market wouldn't make sense, cause the whole point of this deal is to get people using one os.. Why wouldn't they let them use that one os on phones to?
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