Sex Scandal. Really. The firing of HP's exec over sex, does detract from the poor sales figures.
The purchase of Palm was an attempt to use an existing mobile development platform to fight with RIM, Apple, and Google. That is not a fight I would choose to be in.
The Palm 5 was the best platform I have tested that HP/palm had. But that was 10+ years ago.
The fallacy, that HP will fail over and everyone else needs to reevaluate is Moore's Law. The doubling of processor power is not linear over time. There needs to be a point when I and companies say I have enough computing power. I just need a UI to interface with the system.
Moore's law is not a valid mechanism for determining demand in computer science.
Moore's Law
Addendum 8/11/2010
Look, I have had found some of the best laptops are HP. It will be ironic if HP fails because it tried to go mobile. I am more concerned that the board does not understand this. Demand for processors is not linear. I think sanity has left the laptop industry.
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