Friday, September 23, 2011

The most successful failure

HP can't catch a break. First they wanted to get rid of WebOS. On the same day, they hinted they no longer wanted to make PCs.
First, you can't fool anybody. HP hasn't been making PCs for a long time. It's all made in China-land.
Second, we know you have been thinking of this for a while.
But it's not all bad news. They figured out a way to clear the shelves full of WebOS tablets. HP priced it so low, WebOS tablets literally flew off the shelves. You can hear America taking in a deep breath and suddenly 300,000 tablets were gone. HP suddenly were successful at something.
If you call making a 200 dollar loss on each tablet a success.

Now they want to make another run. They want to make more tablets to sell.
Let me get this straight. You made a ton of them and couldn't sell them.
Then you sold all of them and loss a boatload of money.
And you want to make more?

HP, how many whips do you have in your closet? Are you sure you're not into leather and chains. I'm saying it's a problem. What you do on your own time is your business. But mixing business and pleasure is not the way to go.