HP CEO admits company’s laptops feel like ‘bricks,’ vows to learn from Apple

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Samsung isn’t the only company that’s trying to learn from Apple’s design prowess. The Wall Street Journal reports that HP CEO Meg Whitman now admits that her company’s laptops in the past have felt more like “bricks” and that the company in general hasn’t “kept up with the innovation” in terms of making its laptops thinner and more attractive. In response to this challenge, the Journal says that HP “has reorganized and nearly doubled the size of its PC design team to 60 people and has opened two new design centers.” Read the full story at Boy Genius Report.

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Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).