HP
(Hewlett Packard) has been awfully quiet in the first two Quarters of 2012AD.
Aside from new printer releases, shakeups in the Corporate Management structure
and the current impending layoff of twenty seven thousand (27,000) staff worldwide as stated in the article “HP
plans to cut 27,000 jobs, plow savings into R&D”, published May 23,
2012 1:23 PM PDT by Zack Whittaker and Roger Cheng, CNET News
HP
has not made any dramatically new products to write home about.
The
World Economy is still hurtin’ from the US Recession gone Global, which has
resulted in a very weakened, bargain-hunting consumer who is less willing to
spend cash on gadgets. Thus the scale of layoff comes as no surprise.
It’s
that latest announcement that they’ll be making Tablets again, this time using
Windows 8, however that comes as a surprise as reported in the article “HP
will make tablets again, possibly not for you and me”,
published May 10 2012 by Luke Westaway, CNET
News - Crave.
This
announcement was made at a Shanghai
Press Event by Executive vice President of HP's Printing and Personal Systems
Group, Todd Bradley on Tuesday May 9th 2012AD.
Albeit
signs still indicate that HP is withdrawing from the consumer market, this
appears to be more of a push into the Business market, where HP has always had
continued success. To quote Todd Bradley: “I'm very comfortable with where
we're going with tablets. I know we will have very competitive products with
probably more of an enterprise and small business focus than a consumer focus”
In
fact, its core business, making Printers, is slowly dying, actually killed off
by Mobil computing. Especially in light of the fact that Forrester analyst
Sarah Rotman predicts that one third of US Adults will own a Tablet by 2016AD
as stated in the article “One-third
of U.S. adults will own a tablet by 2016, says report”,
published March 7, 2012 9:58 AM PST Lance WhitneyCNET News
Such
dire statistical prognostications is making HP Executives appear to be grasping
for straws like a drowning Man as implied in the article “HP:
Print isn't dying... if you change the definition of print”,
published May 9 2012 by Nick Mokey, DigitalTrends.
This thanks to the Apple iPad, Apple iPhones and their Distant Relatives,
Android powered Tablets and smartphones.
Truth
be told, Mobile Computing, aside from killing off the Netbook, Laptop and PC,
the Gaming Console and the Portable Gaming device as stated in my Geezam blog
article entitled “Nintendo
and Sony vs Smartphones and Tablets: Post – Portable Gaming Era”,
is also empowering the idea of a Paperless Office by killing off the need for
printing, fodder for yet another article in the Geezam blog!
These
Mobile devices are slowly killing off the current state of Disconnected
Technology as exists, replacing it with devices that are always connected to
the Internet via either Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n or 4G Internet.
HP
realizes that they had not focused on making Cloud Printers is now resulting in
Tablets owners realizing that with Tablets getting lighter and thinner, almost
like Digital paper, there is coming a Minority Report future where printing may
not even be necessary.
Therefore
a focus on R&D into Tablets for the Corporate World, where they had always
been making their big profits as well as a renewed focus on Cloud Printing as
prescribed in my blog
article entitled “Windows
8 Tablets and Cloud Printing - Tifa Spell's Out Microsoft's Super 8 Advantage”
is what is most needed to get HP back in the Corporate PC Game.
This
is surprising, as after all the hoopla in 2010AD and the eventual launch of the
HP TouchPad in the Second Quarter of 2011AD as stated in my blog
article entitled “Apple
iPad vs Huawei MediaPad & HP TouchPad - Hackers say this is As Good as it
Gets”, HP let everybody down.
In
the Fourth Quarter of 2011AD, amid Corporate Management shake-ups, the
announced that they were getting out of the PC and Tablet making business
altogether as recorded sadly in my blog
article entitled “HP
gets out of PC, TouchPad and WebOS Business - Apple iPad's victim A long Time
Ago in Mexico”.
Fire
sales of the once promising HP TouchPad ensued at Stores across the US of A as
chronicled in my Geezam blog
article entitled “WebOS
powered HP TouchPad for US$99 – HP exits PC business in Apple’s Post-PC era”.
One
particular group of Android enthusiasts made me hope for a revival of the HP
Touchpad hardware by their attempts to shoehorn Canonicals’ Ubuntu onto the
Tablet as stated in the article “'Touchdroid'
bringing Android to HP TouchPad”, published AUGUST 22,
2011 10:40 AM PDT By Eric Mack, CNET
News
and “HP
TouchPad becomes a low-cost Ubuntu tablet”, published
August 22, 2011, 2:17pm PT By Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOM.
I
personally hoped that other groups of Modders [American colloquial: hardware
and software modifiers] would have begun experimenting with the idea of a
Cloud-Based Tablet using Google Chrome OS instead of Google Android as noted in
my blog
article entitled “HP
TouchPad a target for Modders - PopCaan Raving Chicken Run Lazarus effect for
Cloud-Based Chrome OS Tablet”.
I
even held out hopes for a WebOS revival. But alas this latest news dashes one
set of dreams for WebOS beating Nokia + Microsoft for second place in the
Global Market share race with Google
Android by 2015AD as stated in my blog
article entitled “Nokia
+ Microsoft vs HP
Web OS - Gartner's Ocean's Eleven Plan to Rob the Casino.
Instead, it merely re-affirms the fact that the Mobile
Computing revolution is upon us as stated in my
blog
article entitled “Apple
iPad 3 sports Retina Display, LTE and Bluetooth - Internet of Things heralds
Pointer Sisters Automatic” i.e. the Apple iPad, Apple iPhones
and their Distant Relatives, Android powered Tablets and smartphones.
Even
better, Tablets made running Windows 8, Microsoft software most people are
familiar with and most likely to use to get work done in what can be described
as HP’s Resident Evil
Retribution for Printing.
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