HP CEO: ZOMG, Android to be closed after Motorola purchase!
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But the main problem is the spectacular string of failures it suffered in HPs hands. The delayed hardware, the under-performing phone sales, and the tablet that was yanked off the market just weeks after it launched.
Speaking at HP’s Global Partners Conference, how do you imagine Ms. Whitman solved this problem? Via an expert appeal to the intrinsic technical superiority of the code base? By some deft marketing of the platform to developers and OEMs? No…instead Whitman chose door number three: scaremongering about Android.
Her pitch is that once Google closes the deal on Motorola, it’s going to decide to close off the operating system to other manufacturers, choosing to pursue the Apple route of controlling everything. We’ve heard this claim before, of course; we heard it from Microsoft and Nokia last year when the Motorola deal was announced. The funny thing is the people you haven’t heard it from: Google or any of the Android vendors.
We don’t want to go too far with this – there’s no doubt that some Android vendors may be concerned about what the purchase of Motorola could mean long-term. But Google’s entire M.O. is to get Android in as many hands as possible. And it’s not just Android – their search business, ad revenue, and various services (like Docs and Gmail) are all predicated on the idea of broad horizontal distribution, not tight vertical integration.
So it seems unlikely that Google will try to cut out its partners. But that’s not the real issue here; the real issue is that WebOS desperately needs someone to talk up its good points – someone to evangelize for the platform and convince people that it’s still worth investing in, despite the string of unfortunate events that have befallen it. If the best thing that HP can say about it is that “the industry really needs another operating system” because Android might someday be closed…it seems unlikely that WebOS has much of a future.
source: channelbuzz via electronista
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43. AceXMachine posted on 18 Feb 2012, 05:08 0 0
I wouldn't go that far, but she is definately talking out her ass if not actually taking it in the ass...
2. MYTHiKAL posted on 17 Feb 2012, 10:51 6 0
I agree 100% with this article.. HP mismannaged WebOS so badly that I hardly see a come back.. Palm is long gone, and with it, everythiing else... :(
3. Sniggly posted on 17 Feb 2012, 10:54 7 0
This is just sad. Even Microsoft knows that it needs to mix its FUD in with positive points about WP7. Meg impresses me less each time she opens her mouth.
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32. droiddomination posted on 17 Feb 2012, 14:00 1 2
that old hag still can suck a mean one i bet! i can blow the web off her os and hit it anyday!
4. victo410 posted on 17 Feb 2012, 11:15 1 6
Well, at this point I don't know if believe that Android will continue be Open Source.
look what Google did with Samsung Galaxy nexus ( contract exclusive with Verizon ) that is not Open source ??
6. bigdawg23 posted on 17 Feb 2012, 11:19 3 0
Verizon only get a launch exclusive. Its headed to T-Mo and Sprint.
8. victo410 posted on 17 Feb 2012, 11:35 0 4
Well, launch exclusive or Forever exclusivity is too late for Galaxy nexus. right at the corner you have Galaxy SIII , HTC, maybe Motorola Atrix 3. (exclusivity just worked with att&t and apple Iphone ) but With Android don't work.
10. remixfa posted on 17 Feb 2012, 11:44 5 0
The rumor is that the galaxy nexus is going to get a small bump in specs to stay competitive when it relaunches on other carriers.
Besides, it was never meant to be the biggest beast on the block. Its a reference device for developers and the only device for people that dont want to play the update waiting game.
People hear dual core, no update games, and look at that big beautiful screen and they will buy it.
16. victo410 posted on 17 Feb 2012, 12:10 0 2
I`m agreed with you ( Galaxy nexus is a nice piece Hardware ( I love stock android and Ti processor )
but I`m not mad with Samsung or galaxy nexus.
I`m mad with the f**king Google for be part of ( Circus exclusivity business.
19. iamcc posted on 17 Feb 2012, 12:18 2 0
Yeah the Nexus is as fast as any reasonable person needs (for now at least).
I don't play games on my phone so I actually underclocked my Nexus to 1.0GHz for battery saving reasons and even with a conservative governor in place it is still extremely smooth.
7. prophet posted on 17 Feb 2012, 11:28 5 0
Specific hardware being exclusive to a specific carrier does not have an impact on whether or not the OS is open source. It's the OS that is open source and currently available to all manufacturers to roll out on their own hardware.
29. -box- posted on 17 Feb 2012, 13:33 1 0
It's also available unlocked for GSM carriers (Steve Wozniak has one)
34. DePenguin posted on 17 Feb 2012, 15:12 2 0
It's clear you have no idea what the hell open source means. So please stop talking.
11. ZayZay posted on 17 Feb 2012, 11:56 4 0
Meg: Wow, your a smart feller dad.
Peter: And your a fart smeller!
