[ZT]HP停止投资扩大webOS设备的市场份额

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HP收购PALM后,在手机市场上占据了一席之地,同时拥有全球第二位的品牌平板电脑(仅次于iPad).HP花了12亿美金在Palm上,理立即开展TouchPad研发以及Veer 和Pre3(刚刚发布不久).但现在HP说他们将在第四季度停止webOS设备运营.
奇怪的是:刚刚发布了TouchPad不到两个月,在webOS上大把的投资,为什么现在停止? 通过HP CEO Leo Apotheker 在Q3季度会议上说的,HP在webOS上寄予了期望并希望得到可接受的营收(估计是数百万美金的研发,市场,运营商补贴),现在确定这些不值得..既然webOS不能跟上HP的步伐,所以他们不愿意再冒险.
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HP not willing to make the investments needed to drive webOS to greater marketshare
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& ~2 d$ U5 a' o# b1 a" B: q6 }When HP bought Palm, they set their sights on the mobile market and getting a #2 marketshare position in the tablet market behind the iPad. HP spent $1.2 billion on Palm, and immediately started development on the TouchPad, as well as gearing up to introduce the Veer and Pre3. We’re wondering if the Pre3 is ever going to see the light of day outside of Britain, as HP is planning to shut down webOS device operations by Q4 2011 (unclear if that means calendar or fiscal – fiscal would be sooner).

So the question is, after launching the TouchPad less than two months ago and investing what has to have been several hundred million additional dollars in webOS, why cut it off now? According to HP CEO Leo Apotheker on today's Q3 conference call, HP crunched the numbers again and looked at what it would take for webOS to gain acceptance (billions of dollars in R&D, carrier deals, and marketing) and decided it wasn’t worth it. While webOS could do well with HP’s massive money bags behind them, they weren’t willing to risk all of that money on “could.”
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This also helps HP align themselves better with their plan to somehow spin off their Personal Systems Group. HP is undergoing a “significant transformation” from the world’s largest computer maker to an enterprise software and services company with a printer side business. Is this a good thing for webOS? Absolutely not, and it doesn’t reflect well on HP’s willingness to stomach risk.

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"To make this investment a financial success would require significant investments over the next one to two years, creating risk without clear returns. Therefore we have decided to shut down operations around webOS devices and will be exploring strategic alternatives to optimize the value of the software platform and development capability."

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xtyd

就这么被抛弃了

whuseawolf

真是自毁长城，palm败落后，webos就像个堕入风尘的女子，被买来买去，将来又不知道被卖给谁！

mqy0876

Palm真的是伤不起啊~还是没能看到他进入中国的那一天~
唉~现在别说的后妈养了~孤儿院都不要了~

金属狂人

难道不可以学习一下谷歌吗？既然hp不愿意扩大webos设备，可以和一些硬件厂商来合作呀。

忽雷

虽然，康柏的例子告诉我，HP不会把webOS发扬光大——这我早有心理准备。可没想到会这么彻底地抛弃。

金属狂人

hp放弃webos难道是要投入到w7的怀抱？

zuying

也许是谷歌收购了摩托，然后SB说，我们需要一个新系统，webos不错，咱买吧，hp大喜，赶紧发布消息说我停！这几天业界动荡，估计这个月就会有消息说webos的出路了。

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我只想知道，当初参加竞标的12家投标商里，有没有中国的电信和移动。呵呵，这么好的 东西hp居然搞不好，而且想短短的不到一年就见成效这不是，炒米饭，这是做产业TMD.让我们情何以堪。
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悲剧的paml。。。悲剧的webos。。。难道我们的webos要灭绝了么。。还是赶紧珍藏着。。。物以稀为贵，说不定以后能升值。。@煮机网
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badcow

只要这个时候中国有企业站出来说“我买下！”，那就有一线生机了。

hoodman

希望HP只是不做硬件。

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我只想知道，当初参加竞标的12家投标商里，有没有中国的电信和移动。呵呵，这么好的 东西hp居然搞不好，而且想短短的不到一年就见成效这不是，炒米饭，这是做产业TMD.让我们情何以堪。

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悲剧的paml。。。悲剧的webos。。。难道我们的webos要灭绝了么。。还是赶紧珍藏着。。。物以稀为贵，说不定以后能升值。。@煮机网

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