<story><title>A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/hp_apotheker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acangiano</author><text>I think his interpretation of the facts is very plausible. Sadly, Larry Ellison was absolutely right when he said, at the time of Hurd&apos;s scandal, &quot;the HP Board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple Board fired Steve Jobs many years ago.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Good CEOs who can revamp stagnant companies are hard to come by, particularly in the consumer space. Hurd was that CEO, Apotheker is not. And getting out of the consumer space, at a time when there are several paradigm shifts going on, means missing huge opportunities.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/hp_apotheker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sek</author><text>WebOS was for Hurd just a fig leaf to make a future orientated impression, in reality were all the profits he made short term.&lt;p&gt;What HP needs now is focus and that is what Apotheker is doing. Some people are disappointed that it is not consumer orientated, but when you look at the &quot;smart phone wars&quot; this seems reasonable to me.
HP can&apos;t compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft there. Look at Nokia and Blackberry.</text></comment>