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At TechCrunch Disrupt today, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sat down with HP’s Executive Vice President for the Personal Systems Group, Todd Bradley to discuss HP’s recent acquisition
spree, future strategy and more. HP just bought data storage company 3PAR for $2.4 billion after a heated bidding war with Dell. And earlier this summer, HP bought smartphone manufacturer
Palm for $1.2 billion. And let’s not forget the whole Mark Hurd fiasco. Bradley of course could be a contender for Hurd’s position as CEO. Bradley says his group, which is in charge of a
$40-plus billion revenue stream including PCs, printers and more, was in charge of buying Palm. Bradley’s main goal now, is how to broadly deploy the WebOS, the mobile operating system for
Palm phones. Next year, for example, Palm will sell 15 million printers that use WebOS/ He says that while the smartphone category is growing, tablets are going to be a huge market. He
estimates that in the next few years tablets will be a $40 billion market. HP of course, is looking to be a part of this market with its own iPad competitors.
