HP to Spin Off PCs

Bloomberg: >Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), the world’s largest computer maker, is in talks to buy Autonomy Corp. for about $10 billion and plans to spin off its personal-computer business, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. IBM did a similar move with Lenovo for the very same reason: there is very little money to be…

Bloomberg:
>Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), the world’s largest computer maker, is in talks to buy Autonomy Corp. for about $10 billion and plans to spin off its personal-computer business, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

IBM did a similar move with Lenovo for the very same reason: there is very little money to be made in the Windows PC market. Very little. I do believe IBM actually has done much better financially since spinning off its PC division — there’s something to be said for this move.

My question: where does this leave WebOS?

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