HP PC CEO says or restarts touchpad business

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time August 31 morning, according to the U.S. Science and Technology blog website TechCrunch reports, Hewlett-Packard Global executive vice president and information Products Group President Tode Bradley (Todd Bradley) in an interview with Reuters in Tuesday, said the company may restart the touchpad business , "Tablet PCs are definitely a segment of the PC-related market." "Bradley is currently visiting China, trying to convince local partners, suppliers and supporters that HP's PC business is still vibrant, with high revenues and high profits, and remains the best-selling PC brand." Hewlett-Packard CEO Lee Ai (Leo Apotheker) announced earlier this month that it was considering abandoning the consumer PC market and achieving that goal by selling or stripping the PC business.　　In an interview, Bradley said HP could divest its PC business and set up a new company. This would require a complete spin-off of the PC business from Hewlett-Packard, he said, while requiring the new company to withstand intense market competition and not rely on HP, the parent company, to tide over the difficulties once sales are poor. The touchpad tablet was launched on July 1, but Hewlett-Packard announced that it would abandon the product after 7 weeks. Touchpad manufacturers recommend retail prices as high as 500 U.S. dollars, because of poor sales, HP lowered the price to 399 U.S. dollars.　　When Hewlett-Packard announced a halt to the production of touchpad and reduced the price of the tablet to $99 trillion, it was sold out in many places. Touchpad a gorgeous turn from unsalable to Out-of-stock overnight, after reports that Touchpad is currently ranked second on the tablet sales list, and that consumers are queuing up to buy 99 of dollars touchpad at the best buys chain, just about a week ago, the Wall Street Journal Also reported that Best buy a backlog of a large number of touchpad.　　When the touchpad price is more than 400 dollars, consumers are at a respectful distance, once prices fall to less than the Kindle price, they are snapping up touchpad out of stock. If HP sticks to the present, it can sell the next generation of touchpad with ample funds, even if there is a slight loss, which is not the strength of the newly formed company after stripping.　　A tablet that costs just 99 dollars is clearly not a long-term solution, but with the perfect integration of low-end hardware, cloud storage and content distribution channels, HP has the potential to hit the ipad's dominance. The reason why consumers like touchpad and low prices are the main reasons. Touchpad is currently the most cost-effective tablet in the market, and the industry expects HP to launch a new round of promotions at this price. But Touchpad is not the most popular tablet, and the ipad, which is priced at $500, owns the title. If HP wants to restart its touchpad business, it needs to learn a lesson from not playing hardball with Apple, but competing with it. (Xuan Chen)