Mac OS Ken: 08.19.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2011

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Holy Crapping Crap! HP Stops webOS Operations, Mulls Spinning-Off Computer Business, and Wants to Buy Another Company / Ticonderoga Securities Analyst: Super-Thin Profit Margins Make HP PC Spin-Off Make Sense / HP CEO: “The Tablet Effect is Real” / DisplaySearch: Apple Beats HP in Mobile PC Sales in June Quarter (Counting iPads as Mobile PCs) / HP Taking a 100-Million-Dollar Charge Tied to Poor TouchPad Sales / China Mobile Says It’s Met Several Times with Steve Jobs to Talk China Mobile-Specific iPhone / Chinese Suits Charge Apple with Selling Refurbished iPhone 4s as New / Apple Sued for Allegedly Violating Patent with Disk Utility / Computerworld Netherlands: Apple Looks to Decimate Samsung Galaxy Product Lines in EU / Motorola Mobility Shareholder Sues Motoroogle for Low Price of Acquisition / Best Buy Promo Gives Away Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with Select 3D TVs / LG, Sony, Philips, and Hitachi All See Trouble in TV Space / Reader’s Digest Hops on the iPad In-App Subscription Train

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0:00.0	This is MacOS.C.S.C.C.C.C.C.C.N.
0:07.0	Apple kind of wrecks H.P HP as we know it, indications of a big deal for Apple in China, and
0:17.6	lawsuits abound.
0:19.9	It's Friday August 19, 2011, I'm'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco
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0:49.5	Web O.S. We hardly knew ye.
0:52.1	CNET has HP announcing yesterday that it will discontinue its Web-O-S operations.
0:58.0	The Web-O-S touch pad came out less than two months ago.
1:02.0	HP spent $1.2 billion on Palm last year, mostly to get Web OS.
1:08.6	Yeah, we're done with that now.
1:10.8	Well, CNET has HP saying it will discontinue operations for Web OS devices, specifically the touchpad and Web OS phones,
1:18.0	and it wants to spin off its PC unit.
1:21.0	Hey, I may have buried the lead there.
1:24.0	Mmm, I don't think so because it looks like
1:27.0	HP only might sell its PC business.
1:30.0	It is stopping with the Web OS stuff.
1:33.0	Quoting a press release from HP yesterday,
1:35.0	HP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for Web OS devices,
1:40.0	specifically the touchpad and Web-O-S phones,
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