Comment by AnotherGoodName
Comment by AnotherGoodName 6 days ago
If you compare what HP did here to what Nokia did with Maemo and its Nokia Tablets the board here 100% made the right call. The tablet market just isn't large enough for an app ecosystem independent of the two major phone platforms.
Nokia did what the author is suggesting HP should have done and it doesn't exist anymore. Going independent of the major platforms was a dead end. HP did well to kill it early. Anyone who's developed apps will point out that you shoudn't spend too much time on the tablet version. Just add some borders/sidebars and ship it. The markets not big enough to do more and the tablets are only viable today thanks to re-use of the phone hardware and software ecosystems.
Nokia sold millions of N9 despite zero advertising and Elop refusing to sell it in any of Nokia's primary markets (people were paying big money to import it). Despite that success, he refused to allow another non-Windows phone to be released
It absolutely could have been a huge success if Elop hadn't gone out of his way to kill it.