The critics suggested that Amazon had it all wrong pricing the Fire Phone at $199 with atwo-year contract, not to mention having it available at just one carrier — AT&T. In the past, Amazon, famous for generating cash flow but little or no profit, has sold hardware at roughly cost. The hope was to generate […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook and HP CEO Meg Whitman have one thing in common. Both took their positions in the late summer of 2011. The similarities pretty much end there. Cook had previous experience as interim CEO of Apple when Steve Jobs took several sick leaves. During that time, Apple achieved record sales and profits, […]

So consider the possible logic of the situation. Palm hires a former Apple hardware executive, John Rubinstein, to head the company. Not long thereafter, Palm releases a new line of smartphones featuring the Web OS, but it’s too little and too late. The iPhone has turned the market on its head, and it would take […]

Let’s take a brief journey through history. In early 2011, HP tried to gain a foothold in the nascent tablet market with the TouchPad, using the WebOS acquired from Palm. In those days, there wasn’t much competition beyond the iPad, so some industry pundits expected HP to make a big splash. Only it didn’t happen, […]