HP TouchPad crushed by Apple iPad
 

HP TouchPad crushed by Apple iPad - Telegraph

Apple may be the most valuable company in the world.

I think it proves that there is still a place for exceptional quality and design.

Whatever Moses... the Touchpad was the number 1 selling tablet this weekend, selling out at every location.

...and on close out at $99 bucks a piece with a $100 million write-off for HP. Ouch :eek:

HP assumed the DEC curse when they bought Compaq. Then they bought Palm and apparently drove it into the ground.

I have no interest in an HP tablet even at 99 bucks. I'll hold out for an iPad, even if it's much more expensive. Apple stuff just works, they stand behind their products and they don't nickel-dime their customers over stupid crap like HP is well known for doing.

Just try to get support or a battery for those HP tablets in a couple of years too...

Maybe I HAVE turned into an Apple fanboy after all...

Good to see Apple out-value Exxon Mobil by bringing true innovation and quality as opposed to simply price gouging the public on gasoline.

Do you know what each company's profit margin is? And you think XOM is doing the gouging?

+1 Rick. Apple's percent margin is about 6 times what Exxon normally does.

Let me fix that for you...

Your loss. Enjoy the cool aid.

Anyone know where I can still get in on the $99 deal? If they had 270k in stock, there must be a few left somewhere, no?

I am looking for one as well.

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But it will kill you trying to get thru the overloaded servers!

Wife already bought one today. Well, there goes that b-day gift idea.

I'm considering ordering one, and I don't even know wtf I need it for.

Only buy a Touchpad if you're able to and will install Android on it. The Touchpad runs WebOS which is now a dead OS, no new apps, no support, nothing. HP botched the acquisition of Palm/WebOS as badly as any acquisition could have been botched.

You have to wonder what's going through the minds of the upper echelon as they're coming up with these acquisition "ideas" such as buying Compaq, Palm and now Autonomy. I use quotes on the word ideas because I think they real purpose of such acquisitions is for executives to buy time to look for another gig.

I saw this at Daringfireball.net and thought it was as good an explanation as any...

A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm and Is Getting Out of the PC Business
Sunday, 21 August 2011

HP acquired Palm at the end of April 2010, for $1.2 billion. HP’s CEO was Mark Hurd.

Three months later, in early August, Mark Hurd was forced to resign over that scandal with forged expenses and lies about his lady friend.

HP then named Léo Apotheker president and CEO on 30 September 2010.

The thing is, Apotheker’s relevant experience was serving as CEO of SAP. What’s SAP? SAP is an enterprise software and consulting company. Honestly, we all should have seen this coming. You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker. You bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn a PC and device maker into an enterprise consulting company.

Palm wasn’t Apotheker’s acquisition. It was Hurd’s. And the PC business wasn’t why Apotheker took the job. Apotheker’s acquisition was announced this week, coincident with the news that HP wants out of the PC and device business: Autonomy — a company I’d never heard of before but which more or less sounds like a rival to SAP.

I suppose Apotheker gave the Palm/WebOS guys a chance, and let them get the TouchPad on the market. But apparently their chance was a one-strike-and-you’re-out opportunity to gain traction in the market immediately. But the TouchPad didn’t get any traction immediately, so, boom, that’s it, Apotheker is done with them. Apotheker simply never had any interest in the consumer market or product development. My guess is that he planned on getting HP out of the hardware business all along, and Palm, at best, was an afterthought. If he’d been named HP’s CEO six months earlier, they never would have acquired Palm in the first place.

Hopefully it comes with a good jpg slideshow app so at a minimum you have a nice electronic picture frame.

There are guys at XDA development working on this. The biggest issue is whether there are drivers to work with the hardware.