UPDATED 14:15 EDT / AUGUST 25 2011

Samsung Says No to HP’s PC Business, So What’s Next?

If Hewlett-Packard’s goal is to confuse everyone about the future of their company, whether it’s about their PC or software, they’re doing a great job.

“What we said is we would stop manufacturing WebOS devices. We did not say we would get out of the tablet business,” Executive Vice President Todd Bradley told CNBC.

When they said they would cease production and shipment of webOS devices that was interpreted as a bail out of the tablet race.  But, as they are in talks of acquiring Autonomy, could this mean that they would still produce tablets, but will run on a different platform?  One made by Autonomy?  With Bradley’s statement, you can’t help but to read between the lines.

As for their PC business, HP was rumored to have been secretly looking for potential buyers and either Samsung or Lenovo could be the potential buyers.  But Samsung has strongly denied this rumor.

“I would like to definitively state that Samsung Electronics will not acquire Hewlett-Packard’s PC Business,” Samsung chief executive Choi Gee-sung said in a statement.

HP’s Chief Executive Leo Apotheker reassured investors that separating the PC business will allow it to act faster on consumer trends, keeping it on top of its game.  He also stated that they are still committed to webOS and will continue developing the platform so it can still compete with the iOS and Android though webOS devices will no longer be produced.  And as for the Autonomy’s part, this would fall in to HP’s plan to grow their cloud computing services.

We’ll just have to wait as to how HP’s plan for their business pans out.  It’s still a bit confusing as to what they really aim to do.  At least Apotheker and Bradley are on the same page.  Based on their statements, it seems HP is brewing something in their PC business that we should watch out for.  They’re still in the game.


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