What a week ! First Google buys Motorola and nowHP is spinning off its hardware business sector , kill the TouchPad , andpossibly attend for a buyer for webOS . What ’s next ? Microsoft reveals Steve Ballmer is actually a charwoman ? The Macalope ’s not trusted he can palm that .
Boy , it seems like just yesterday we were laughing at how badly the TouchPad was selling . Hey!It was just yesterday!(The Macalope be intimate that bit . ) Apparently HP noticed that , too . Andfreaked the hell out .
This is keen , though . Now we have an experiment group to match our control group . Because , when it comes to the wandering business , RIM is kinda like HP — just without any shred of self - awareness . While HP ’s cover its face and squall “ Uncle ! ” , RIM ’s doubling down like a gaming freak . Now the caller is apparently prove tobuild its own music service .
RIM , love . Do n’t .
This really is a report in direct contrast , is n’t it ? One company face defeat and declare oneself its all over and utter surrender . The other decide to continue down a destructive path that can only finish in a dumpster at a rest stay outside Calgary , wake up from an alcoholic beverage and drug - fueled binge , with a freshness storage Mountie costume around its ankles .
Now the question on everyone ’s mind is “ what ’s next for webOS , the little OS that could n’t ? ” ( Twice , for those keeping grudge at abode : Once at Palm , once at HP.)Nicholas Carlson , Dan FrommerandMG Sieglerthink Facebook should buy webOS . The Macalope supposes it could work : Web operating organization , Web - establish social meshwork . Personally , the corneous one ’s not existent into Facebook because he has no desire to reconnect with people from grade school ( shaver can be so cruel when your antlers start coming in ) . But he would hate to see webOS merely die on the vine while there are other less worth operating systems still on the mart .
Still , as with Google , the Macalope does n’t understand why these company — whose essence business is not operate organisation and hardware sale — think they have to make operating systems and ironware . It ’s pretty confutable whether or not this has really worked out for Google . AsHorace Dediu notes on the latest episode of The Critical Path , Android is strictly a justificatory move , and protect your existing business model is n’t as interesting as building new business sector . You make out what they say the right denial is .
