惠普前首席技术官菲尔•麦金尼（philmckinney）去年10月退休，此后他写了一本书《超越显而易见》（Beyond the expective），反映了他在该行业的创新经验。在采访Rick Mathieson宣传这本书时，McKinney对收购Palm仅仅16个月后就决定终止webOS用于消费类设备的决定有了一点了解。我们之前听说，这是一个简单的问题，平台表现不够好，但麦金尼说，有一个为期三年的计划，为webOS是削减了利奥李艾科，该公司本应在这段时间内操作的手。

"Palm had been struggling and HP was stepping in, doing the acquisition, and we were basically going to take three years hands-off. Palm was basically going to get a cash infusion, resources, and expertise. But Palm was going to be given three years to basically get itself positioned to be a market leader in its space. Now, fast forward to July of 2011 and, one, you had a swap out of the CEOs — Leo comes in as the new CEO — and HP, for whatever reason — I was not a part of this decision — made the decision to kill it one year into the three year program. This is an example of not committing long term to the resources and not having patience for innovation, and I'm disappointed that HP made that decision."

2010年11月，在收购Palm 7个月后，李艾科就任CEO，显然对惠普在移动领域的缓慢发展已经失去了耐心。webOS对惠普来说可能不是一个出色的执行者，但由于Palm的命运正由如此激烈的行动决定，难怪梅格•惠特曼（Meg Whitman）这么长时间以来似乎都不知道该如何处理这个部门。