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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo
IMO, The popularity of this thing at these firesale prices really shows how HP knows nothing about what they are doing.
Why launch the thing at 499, and 599?? What features did it have to try and price it the same as an iPad? If I were an HP executive, I would've gambled and offered these things at 199 and 249... they wouldn't still sold like hot cakes. They have to flood the market so there is a market for apps, then perhaps do well on a TouchPad 2.
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While I agree that they have no idea what they're doing, they did basically bring their user base up from several thousand users to several million users literally over night. If they want to lease/sell webOS, it just made it much more attractive to both hardware and software developers.