Human beings love a good wager. We’ll put money on just about anything that looks like it has half a chance of pulling through. Ever the optimists, we lovingly put our hard earned cash on the horses, the dogs, the football, and even teen singing contests. So why not indulge in a little tech speculation? Especially with the field so ripe with potential winners and losers, movers and shakers.
For the betting man (or woman) among you, let’s consider the prospects for WebOS, and HP’s hardware division, suddenly up for grabs in a market still reeling from Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility.
As Android partners absorbed the shock of Google’s announcement last week, and analysts waxed lyrical about the upcoming slowdown of Android’s momentum in the market, HP decided to spin off its hardware division, dump its month old tablet and is considering what to do with WebOS and the remnants of its smartphone aspirations. Could the move have come at a better time? Hardly.
But who will buy HP’s orphaned wares? Who could possibly profit from WebOS? Let’s take a look and indulge in some not-for-profit punditry…
