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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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