Why is the largest computer company in the world not competing with Apple in the hottest device category?
The easy answer is that Hewlett-Packard shuttered its WebOS tablet business last summer.
The uneasy answer is that here we are in the summer of 2012 and HP, after announcing massive layoffs this week, has nothing to offer. (Sorry, the
Windows 7 HP Slate doesn't count.)
And the outlook for HP doesn't necessarily improve when you think that it is putting all of its
tablet eggs in Windows 8 and Windows RT devices.
Both of those categories are still unknown quantities: We don't know
if Windows 8 will be a hit when it's released, probably in the
October-November timeframe. And Windows RT -- designed specifically for
tablets -- is even more problematic, because it's a new platform and
likely won't be a factor until 2013.
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