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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by revorad on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:18PM (#2901130)
"Since I'd been very young HP had been the highlight company for engineers" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMRmG72LBU8

I wonder what Woz thinks now. It must be a sad day for many HP engineers.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by asmithmd1 on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:42PM (#2901236)
That HP is still very much alive in their spin-off of lab and testing equipment, Agilent Technologies Inc
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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by Splines on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:38PM (#2901212)
What sort of stuff are they doing now? In the consumer's eye, they make mediocre printers and PCs.

In my university days I happily used a HP calculator and scope, in addition to HPUX. Are those businesses still going strong?

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by sciurus on Friday August 19, 2011 @12:31AM (#2902245)
Who makes better printers? I've always been a fan of HP due to their work on HPLIP.
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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by Splines on Friday August 19, 2011 @01:39AM (#2902373)
Perhaps I was unfair - that's just my perspective of the current state of affairs. I've used some HP printers and some non-HP printers in the last few years, and the HP ones did nothing to stand out of the pack.

I guess what I mean to say is that HP just seems like yet-another consumer electronics company. It isn't apparent to me if people have brand-loyalty to HP in the consumer segment.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by joezydeco on Thursday August 18, 2011 @09:01PM (#2901788)
The calculator group was shut down, an HP division in Australia tried to revive it a while back. I think the HP calculators that are still being sold are done by a Korean OEM.
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