This week, HP CEO Mark Hurd told investors at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch tech conference that he "didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business," nor would he ever "spend billions of dollars
trying to go into the smartphone business." Some industry watches took those statements to mean that HP wanted nothing to do with smartphones. 'Not at all!' says HP. "When we look at the market, we
see an array of interconnected devices, including tablets, printers, and of course, smartphones," the company said in a prepared statement. During his presentation this week, Hurd did put the emphasis
on Palm's IP -- specifically webOS, which he wants to put on "tens of millions of HP small form-factor web-connected devices."
Writes
Engadget: "Apparently what Hurd was really trying to say was that HP is excited about using webOS as the
foundation for all types of smaller web-connected devices, and smartphones are just a part of that universe -- a part HP intends to pursue. Phew."
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