It seems that the next Palm device, when it will be released, will play in the same league than his dear Android and iPhone friends.
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HP, when buying WebOS, made a breakthrough move.
They have decided Microsoft wasn’t right anymore. When TechCrunch’s Siegler says HP wants to be Apple and WebOS is key, he’s right. His piece is interesting, go read it.
Now, I wonder. It took a long, long time until people realize that, in order to make an almost perfect company, you have to control both software and hardware and ensure that there is a seamless experience between both platforms. Well, you can answer that this strategy didn’t work well before the mid-00′s and the reckless OS X expansion—it works now, so forget about it.
HP will do that. Google is doing it the Microsoft way.
After HP bought Palm, a rush of hope ran through WebOS lovers’ veins. Yesterday, we learned that HP filed for the PalmPad trademark. Palm… Pad… Tablet. Right. Now this, is odd, no? Why would Palm call it the PalmPad and not the WebPad? Or something related to WebOS specifically and not to Palm.
Well anyway, it seems that this Palm rep is keeping his promise.
HP is, as you know, one of the most important leaders of the tech industry—since it’s a leader, it must be an important one. Now, they announced recently their desire to change the way we print stuff by unveiling HP ePrint which gives each printer a unique email address where you can send files to print. Wait, what?
You print by emailing a file to the unique HP printer’s mail address.
Now, Mashable’s take on the subject is interesting, why is HP doing that?
Beyond selling printers, HP needs to sell ink. With more and more types of documents getting digitized and smartphones replacing former functions of printers (think coupons and tickets), HP needs new ways to drive printer usage.
They have the right to try. But, really, how is this going to be useful? If there’s nobody, how can you retrieve the printed document? And, since it’s an email address, I can’t understand how it’s just not only a gain of time. Yeah, well, it works for surprises.
