If you are in I-T, just fucking shut up about Apple. You just keep saying stupid fucking things. How is WebKit a love/hate relationship with open source? How is shipping the only name brand PC with open source software on it a love/hate relationship with open source? Fuck. So stupid.

HP has no future in client PC's. They have to get out ASAP. They don't know a damn thing about competing for the consumer's attention. Consumer PC's are sociology, not specs. Nobody cares what is inside a MacBook Air, they just want one.

What used to be the PC market is now just servers. HP's notebooks are a server in a notebook, they are not comparable to Apple's notebooks. HP should be running for the back room I-T business it knows.

A friend of mine who is a petite woman was told by her doctor not to carry her HP notebook anymore, it was too heavy. She pulled her trapezius muscle carrying it, which is one of the most painful muscle pulls there is. She put the carry bag for the notebook onto a 2 wheeler so she could drag it through the airport. Then she saw my MacBook Air and went out to Apple Store the same day and bought one for herself and for the past year she has been carrying it everywhere in her purse. And it is multiple times faster and more capable than the HP boat anchor it replaced. And she found Mac OS and iWork to be superior to the Windows XP and Office 2003 she was used to, as well as 10 years newer. Is HP going to follow Apple down that road? Is HP going to secure large supplies of flash storage chips, learn how to cut metal to make thin notebooks, and somehow, someway find a way to put some sex into their client systems? Because consumers don't reverse their expectations. They see MacBook Air and iPad and they don't look at a giant HP boat anchor the same way again. They find out how you can just go to Genius Bar to get everything you were getting at Geek Squad for free.

And the time of CIO's buying lots of 10,000 HP PC's is winding down. Companies are giving their users their slice of the I-T budget, and 50% or more of them are going to Apple Store.

In 5 years, there will only be 2 PC makers: Apple and Microsoft. And I'm not sure about Microsoft. There is no place for HP in client systems.

HP killed TouchPad by not making their own software for the 10 years previous. They can't correct for the fact that they put their balls into Microsoft's hands by putting WebKit and Linux on some ARM hardware. They just simply did not have enough software to compete with Apple and Microsoft at their own games.

Yeah, the only logical buyer for HP's PC business is the company that should have owned it all along: Microsoft.

Google is 75% Mac users, including Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt. Chrome OS is not even close to a replacement for Mac OS X. Chrome OS does not even replace iOS yet.

Apple leads in all PC quality surveys, as well as all PC customer service surveys. If you are too stupid to work the Genius Bar and AppleCare ($149 for years 2 and 3 on a mini) then maybe you *should* buy from HP.

The iPhone 4 does not have a poor antenna any more than the earth is flat or President Obama is a socialist.

There is no alternate universe where the bottom doesn't fall out of the generic PC market and kill the quality of all IBM and HP PC's, should they still be making them. That is a fact of life that IBM and HP had to deal with in their own way. IBM spun off their PC's and HP kept them and ran them into the ground. In both cases, quality went down. It was always going to go down. You can't go from an average sales price of around $1000 to an average sales price of around $500 without losing quality.

People used to say that if Apple were to make Intel PC's they would crush the Windows PC makers. Well, Apple started making Intel PC's in 2006 and they crushed the Windows PC makers, who all had to run down to the $500 low-end market to survive. People used to say that if Apple were to make a $500 low-end PC, they would crush the Windows PC makers. Well, in 2010, Apple started making a $500 low-end PC and they crushed the Windows PC makers. ALL Windows PC makers. Doesn't matter what brand is on the Windows PC. Whether at IBM or Lenovo, whether at HP or a spin-off, the market is what matters. If the market won't support building a quality PC, you have to build junk. If you build junk, that reflects on your other businesses and your brand. So HP either has to become a junk brand or get out of PC's. Since they make most of their money on something other than PC's, get out! Get out now. Get out 5 years ago!

The quality would have gone down at IBM also. You can't get blood from a stone. The Windows PC market is running at an average sales price of $450. You can't build a quality PC for that price. That is actually cheaper than the original iPod from 2001, which in 2011 dollars is about $500.

Not just business, but also government has been destroyed by MBA.