{"id":5106,"date":"2011-09-01T23:07:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5106"},"modified":"2011-09-01T23:08:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:08:18","slug":"david-chernicoff-asks-if-hp-just-did-a-new-coke-with-webos-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/david-chernicoff-asks-if-hp-just-did-a-new-coke-with-webos-no\/","title":{"rendered":"David Chernicoff asks if HP just did a New Coke with WebOS? In a word, no."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Suddenly the HP tablets are everywhere; an instant user base has sprung up, dwarfing the base of any other tablet than the iPad.\u00a0 HP seems to be wavering on the hard line that the tablet business was done with.\u00a0Yet with this supposed fire sale, HP has done what no other non-Apple tab let vendor has been able to accomplish; jump start the sales and market for a new tablet device and operating system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Coca-Cola Company didn&#8217;t plan New Coke as a master plan to boost market share, Coca Cola didn&#8217;t announce they were stopping sugary water for everyone,\u00a0and they didn&#8217;t sell the drink at a crippling loss for market share. If Pepsi started selling cola at five cents a can to get market share, then perhaps there&#8217;s a tenuous link to the cola wars of the eighties, but until then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;once more, with emphasis: <strong>Let. WebOS. Die.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly the HP tablets are everywhere; an instant user base has sprung up, dwarfing the base of any other tablet than the iPad.\u00a0 HP seems to be wavering on the hard line that the tablet business was done with.\u00a0Yet with this supposed fire sale, HP has done what no other non-Apple tab let vendor has been able to accomplish; jump start the sales and market for a new tablet device and operating system. The Coca-Cola Company didn&#8217;t plan New Coke as a master plan to boost market share, Coca Cola didn&#8217;t announce they were stopping sugary water for everyone,\u00a0and they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-palm-pocket-computers-and-phones","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1km","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}