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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
I disagree. This is a generic checklist that every mobile device vendor is looking into, so HP is providing no new details here.
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Perhaps, but I think they spelled it out more than your initial story implied. It may have been a generic feature list, but it wasn't just "more R&D spending", either.
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
In the past, HP had designed videos for concept devices that were particularly stunning. Those concept devices never made it to market, but that was a great idea to demonstrate their R&D is still alive. I've not seen any such thing since -- just corporate-speak.
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I don't recall any of those videos. Do you have a link to any that are still active? (I'm not doubting you, just curious to see what they were like.)
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
The one class of enterprise apps I would consider upgrades to be bad for are vertical applications (i.e., POS devices etc.); if HP is trying to make that the keystone of their argument, then they should focus on it and explain in greater detail.
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I assumed that's what they meant when they said, "A big part of HPs enterprise customers are running their own applications on our pen/based products."
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
Well, consider passing the cost on to customers, then. The enterprise market could certainly consider future-proofing a feature. To dismiss it by saying that the enterprise wouldn't even want this is weak.
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I don't believe Compaq or HP ever provided free OS upgrades; they were $30 (maybe $40). They probably felt that would cover their costs, but maybe it didn't, and they'd have to price the upgrades so high now that almost nobody would buy them. If that's the case, why bother producing them at all?
I guess I'm just not as incensed at HP this time as I was over their
WM 2003 SE non-upgrade excuses. Or maybe I've just come to expect less from them nowadays than I used to.
It's too bad, because (as you said) they probably could have owned a bigger part of the Windows Mobile space than they do now.
Steve