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Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long! - pdq - 08-19-2011
For those who haven't heard, HP is dumping WebOS and everything associated with it - smartphones _and_ the TouchPad.
Wow. For those keeping score:
July 1: launches at $599
Aug 1: first software update, and "limited time" $50 instant rebate
Aug 3: "limited promotion" at $100 off
Aug 5: Woot offers $120 off; 612 sold
Aug 11: $100 price cut made permanent - ("we were pleased with response" said HP rep)
Aug 16: articles appear saying Best Buy can't sell them, wants HP to take them back; HP "pleading for more time"
Aug 18: HP pulls the plug.
Gotta feel a little sorry for those early
Re: Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long! - vision63 - 08-19-2011
I mourn more for the death of Palm.
It is sad. I remember how awesome it was to buy my first Palm Pilot. Almost as cool as when I bought my Fat Mac (which I swapped out days later for the new Mac Plus). Buying the little apps and playing the stupid little games. Reading ebooks on it. Feeling so technologically fit.
Re: Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long! - JEBB - 08-19-2011
I wonder if HP will try to sell the remaining TouchPads or send them to a landfill?
Re: Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long! - decay - 08-19-2011
IPAD KILLERZ!
Re: Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long! - mattkime - 08-19-2011
Apple has an incredible lead when it comes to this stuff.
Re: Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long! - freeradical - 08-19-2011
If you want an RPN, calculator, HP is the only game in town.
Re: Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long! - WHiiP - 08-19-2011
freeradical wrote:
If you want an RPN, calculator, HP is the only game in town.
I don't. :fawkdance: :biggrin:
Re: Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long! - DP - 08-19-2011
vision63 wrote:
I mourn more for the death of Palm.
It is sad. I remember how awesome it was to buy my first Palm Pilot. Almost as cool as when I bought my Fat Mac (which I swapped out days later for the new Mac Plus). Buying the little apps and playing the stupid little games. Reading ebooks on it. Feeling so technologically fit.
I still use my Treo 650 as a Pilot. Battery is going strong and the phone is fine. I figure I can use it if I ever drop my current phone in the toilet...
Re: Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long! - DeusxMac - 08-19-2011
pdq wrote:
For those who haven't heard, HP is...dumping WebOS...and everything associated with it - smartphones _and_ the TouchPad.
Good example how facts get spun out into falsehoods really quickly. :damnyou:
HP is not dumping WebOS, they're only dumping their WebOS hardware; the TouchPad and WebOS based phones.
They hope to license WebOS to other manufacturers the same way Google licenses Android.
There was a big article about this in Tuesdays WSJ.
Re: Story # 1: TouchPad RIP - that didn't take long! - RAMd®d - 08-19-2011
I mourn more for the death of Palm.
Agreed.
My first Palm was a V, then a Tungsten T3.
I wanted a Vx but missed that boat. What a great little device. What great devices for their time.
I hate to see anybody go under, especially in this economy. While Apple will probably be the manufacturer that makes the tech gear I want, competition is good, and not everybody needs what Apple builds.
It's amazing that the iPhone and iPad (and to a lesser degree, the 'Pod) have defined the Standard for so many, and that it's as though nobody wants a "tablet" but everybody (yeah, I know) wants an iPad.
Still, Palm was there when the Newton wasn't.