A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm and Is Getting Out of the PC Business | Daring Fireball

John Gruber’s guess is pretty good.

But the saddest part of all of this—to me, anyway—is that Hewlett-Packard, a name synonymous with world-class test equipment, is now going to be, of all things, an enterprise information management company, the test equipment company having been spun off as Agilent in the 90’s.

I give HP, the enterprise information management company, less than a decade before Agilent could snap up the HP name from the ashes.

I. They. Calculators. Don’t stop making. Just hope.