Palm has created many new job postings on monster.com since HP announced they where getting out of the tablet and phone business. Product managers, product engineers, software engineers, etc. Why?
I don't know what is so confusing. They want to shut down hardware production but still keep WebOS as a platform. Now what hardware will it run on? I don't know. I'm going to assume they want to license it.
It's just a bit pointless to write software for non-existent hardware. Until they announce a licensee who will manufacture something for the software to run on, no new WebOS device is being made and your market is the 1 million current users of tablets plus the couple million phone users.
Not very bad, but not very attractive from a financial point-of-view either.
But their new strategy was described as a focus on enterprise software. Why invest further in a consumer device OS? Do they want to focus more on enterprise adoption? Maybe fill the space that Blackberry used to own? Or did everyone leave and they need to backfill to keep up appearances until they sell off the unit?
Printers? HP has printers that can access and print directly from popular Internet sites. Also, some aspects of WebOS could form the foundation of their new direction as a software company.
