Saturday, January 29, 2011

HP CEO: New webOS products shipping weeks after February 9 reveal, another big announcement March 14

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[/img]It's been a few months since Leo Apotheker took the top spot at
HP following the Mark Hurd debacle, and it sounds like he's got some
big plans for the company -- speaking to the BBC, he says he hopes
"one day people will say 'this is as cool as HP,' not 'this is as cool
as Apple.'" How does he plan on doing that? By speeding up ship times,
for starters -- unlike the year-long wait for the HP Slate, Apotheker
says that "when HP makes announcements, it will be getting ready to
ship," and that the new webOS products announced on February 9 will
ship just a "few weeks" later. Speaking of the February 9 event,
Apotheker said the new product line of tablets and mobile phones will
have a new name that falls under the HP brand, which sounds like the
Palm name is done for. (If we had to guess, it'll be HP webOS, but
that's just a guess.)

On top of all that, the BBC calls February 9 just the "starting gun,"
because Apotheker's "secret answer" and "vision of what HP is capable
of in the future" will come on March 14, where he'll try to pull
together HP's vast product portfolio into a cohesive narrative.
According to Apotheker, HP's size is its "basis of strength," and no
other company sells everything from servers to phones the way HP does.
Sounds extremely exciting -- and if Apotheker can pull it off, there's
a chance we'll remember Mark Hurd's dalliance as the best thing that
ever happened to HP.

[Thanks, soydeedo]

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