It is the news of the day within the sector: the North American Hewlett-Packard gives the bolt to its division of mobile devices. This has been expressed by the company itself in a statement in which it recognizes that the future of the company involves software development.
In the case of mobiles and tablets based on WebOS, the decision is particularly relevant, since only a year ago HP decided to acquire the North American Palm INC. in order to launch terminals based on that operating system, then owned by the absorbed company.
With a short life on the market, the HP TouchPad, the tablet of the house, will not have new revisions, as had been raised in recent weeks through leaks that, at the time of what is known today, remain in borage water.
HP's decision also reorients the projection of the firm (currently the world's leading manufacturer of computers), separating the PC division from the company's main activity, and focusing its efforts on software development.
So much so, that HP confirms that we are in the week of 12,000 million dollars. And it is that while Google paid an amount to Motorola for the purchase of the company (a justified amount for a premium above 60 percent of the company 's shares US), is now HP which could disburse that amount (11,700 million, almost 8,200 million euros, at the current exchange rate) by the British Autonomy, a company focused on software development.
Plans HP to convert the new WebOS an operating system to other manufacturers licenciase may fall therefore unheeded. The way in which the profile of a board defined by the association of large firms (Nokia-Microsoft, Google-Motorola) and the fierce rise of Apple with its iOS terminals is gradually being drawn, seems to have ended up stifling the aspirations of Hewllet-Packard, foreseeing a market that in the future will be constrained by just two or three groups of manufacturers. In any case, the statement from the AmericanIt is unclear if the cancellation of future devices will be reflected in the future of the WebOS platform.
