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by MatthewPhillips 5413 days ago
In their earnings call they said they lost $332 million on WebOS in the last quarter alone. Again, people are drastically underestimating the costs of developing, manufacturing, and advertising consumer electronics at this scale. When you have a product that is pretty much a total loss, the number of companies that can swallow that type of loss and continue on can be counted on one hand and HP isn't one of them.