Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
by kenjackson on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:19PM
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Another CEO did the same thing. Steve Jobs when he came back to Apple. Jobs brought in his own team and basically just kept the Apple name. Seems to be working so far.
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
by masklinn on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:23PM
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On the other hand, Jobs had founded the corp, had an almost mythical aura and the previous executive team had spent a decade fucking up Apple.
Oh, and he refocused the company on its original core business, where Apotheker is moving HP away from its historical roots.
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
by tesseract on Thursday August 18, 2011 @08:43PM
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HP no longer has historical roots, it spun them off into Agilent some time ago.
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
by masklinn on Friday August 19, 2011 @04:31AM
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yeah, that seems to be the common analysis of the move: the founder's vision was abandoned a while ago, they're just setting fire to the remnants junking the yard.
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
by cincinnatus on Friday August 19, 2011 @01:58PM
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The difference is when Jobs started NeXT it was a new iteration of the Apple idea, so when he brought that team in it was a new heart for the old body, with the same DNA. There's literally no available comparison to that situation, and nothing remotely to do with HPs situation today.
Not a great business plan if you ask me. You see it a lot in sports: change all of the players to match the new coach's plan rather than adapting the plan to fit the players you have. Usually they stumble around for a few years during the "turnaround" and then repeat the cycle with the next coach.