HP is going to stay in the tablet business

The executive director of HP announced his company's intention to remain in the tablet business. At the same time, the company leaves the sphere of production of personal computers, this decision was made long ago . Despite the fact that the TouchPad tablet with WebOS did not become successful, HP is still going to continue to release tablet computers. However, it is not clear yet, nor when the subsequent models will be released, nor what operating system will be used. The company will make a decision on this issue within two months.

According to the information provided by the Wall Street Journal, HP will continue the practice of licensing for WebOS, regarding the use of this OS by other manufacturers. But it’s unclear whether HP will produce its own tablets. It may well be that the corporation will only release software for mobile devices, because management has previously announced its intention to leave the sphere of production of hardware, and concentrate on creating various kinds of software.
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If the company continues to produce tablets, it may well be that the upcoming Windows 8 from Microsoft will be used as the OS. This OS should appear in a few months. HP's leadership does not seem to lose hope of releasing financially successful tablets, and the next steps are now planned to work in this area.

The company's plans and all current and upcoming changes do not reflect well on the stock price. After the announcement of the withdrawal from the PC-business, made on August 18th, the company's shares fell very strongly in price. Only now they began to grow a little. However, the value of one HP share until August 18 was $ 31. Now the share price is 26.99 US dollars.

Via mashable

UPD. HP will continue to support the production of its line of PCs, which is good news. Thanks to the authors of the comments for important information .