WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.
HP CEO: WebOS is part of our cloud strategy. Todd Bradley: The effective price for the tablet is $300.
Besides HP is not spinning off the PC PSG division, the inevitable question was “what are you to do with webOS”?
Meg Whitman indicated, for instance, that webOS, which H.P. was incorporating into servers as well as tablets, will continue to play a role. “We’re still working through webOS, still haven’t gotten to ground,” Ms. Whitman said. “It is part of our cloud strategy. Stay tuned.”
Todd Bradley, the head of the PC unit, did not say whether H.P. would re-enter the tablet market with webOS. The company currently sells a tablet that uses Microsoft software. He said the “effective price” for the tablet is $300, adding that “the challenge is building that out.”
Well, we know now they are working on how to get parts and components that work and can reach a competitive tablet price for a 16GB wi-fi version with a $300.- price tag.
Bradley also said that he, CEO Meg Whitman Lesjack, and former Palm CEO and current HP VP Jon Rubinstein are working “as quickly as we can to make the right decisions about webOS,” with Whitman adding that they'll make a decision about “the long-term future of webOS within in HP over the next couple of months.”
Whitman did note that HP could find use for webOS in HP business other than the PSG, saying that “we have to make a more holistic decision around webOS.”
Source: NYTimes
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