ComputerWorld – Hewlett-Packard Company tablet does not mean that Apple will remain the undisputed king of the iPad, analysts said today.
“WebOS killer would never be an iPad,” Ezra Gottheil, an analyst at Technology Business Research said. “There was a chance in the market for the company, but it was never the strong position of the iPad tablet in space consumption challenge.”
On Thursday, HP announced it would stop, tablets and smartphones powered by webOS, the operating system is acquired when it acquired Palm last year for $1.2 billion The movement – just weeks after HP began selling its durability TouchPad – most analysts by surprise.
But this is not a signal that Apple is compressed his current position as a leading provider carefully: webOS was just too small players – and should stay that way – affect Apple.
“They were the fourth horse in a race with three horses,” Gottheil said, referring to Google and its Android operating system from Apple with IOS and Microsoft with its next iteration of Windows, Windows 8
Chris Connery, DisplaySearch analyst sees the race as a tablet even more closely, one between Google and Apple with the ability of Microsoft to join the fight again to prove. “The tablets are in one room with two OS at the moment,” said Sean Connery. “HP established fairly quickly that there is no room for three.”
Both Connery and Gottheil said that euthanasia webOS HP Tablet not a signal that others, including Google, Apple or even exceeding difficult to prevent.
“There are things that do not just Apple,” said Gottheil. “It is not to create the broadest range of [tablet] form factors, is Android Tablet makers. And it will not compete at the lower end, not because the [compromise] will.”
Challenge to Apple may be difficult or impossible today if the tablets play rivals in the same price range, but it will not last forever, said Gottheil.
“At some point, consumers can enter the camps, with one word:” I want to get something good is cheap enough, and the others say: “I want something that’s great.” The first is to go on Android, “said Gottheil.
But it is difficult to predict when this will happen.
Neither analysts saw the same Android shelves relatively short time frame for smart phones with the Android operating system developed and agreed that it will probably take longer for the iPad has to catch it on the iPhone dispute.
“I think the curve might be a little difficult for Android [on boards] on smartphones,” said Sean Connery. “Apple is moving the bar.”
Connery notes that Google’s planned acquisition of Motorola’s Mobility – announced an agreement that the $12.5 billion earlier this week – the impact in the fight against Android iOS tablet.
“Motorola and Google come together for any reason, and that’s not all about patents,” said Sean Connery. “They have tablets in mind as well.”
Analysts agree that buying through Google’s desire to expand its patent portfolio as Android legal difficulties with both Apple and Microsoft has been motivated, although some, including the German patent activist Florian Mueller argued the opposite.
But even if the rule of the iPad will not ever get up, it will be difficult to dethrone him.
“HP shows webOS decision, not only walking, but maybe all PC activities, how difficult it is to play in consumer electronics,” said Connery. “We have seen the brand and the brand back not with a business in sustainable consumption. Everyone wants to be in, but once there, they see how the margins are low. All except Apple, which”.
And this, said Gottheil, is exactly what HP does not show acts.
“HP’s” “In this era of” consumerization [computer] de-consumerizing “business,” said Gottheil.
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