HP chooses webOS for their tablet product, but why?
CrunchGear’s Matt Burns leaps to an interesting conclusion in his coverage of the news that HP has decided to kill their tablet project that would have run Android: “the best option won and HP is going with the webOS over Windows 7 or Android.”
What’s more likely: after HP paid $1.2B for the acquisition of Palm, the only politically possible decision HP executives could make is to make damned sure that investment is put to work in the fullest possible way. Would shareholders have accepted any other decision?
Out of the many factors that HP considered in its decision (from technical to consumer trends to licensing considerations), it’s hard to see how the webOS price wasn’t the most heavily weighted factor in the decision.