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Old 08-24-2011, 07:54 AM   #489
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Originally Posted by SumAznGuy View Post
One thing I noticed is that there has been a lot of tv commercials for the HP touchpad ever since the weekend when they dropped the price on them and everywhere is sold out.

Even my c-lai and older fobby co-workers are asking me to help them get a touchpad since they heard from friends/family/radio/news talk about how HP dropped the price down to $99 even though they know nothing about computers/tablets.

So if this is all a marketing ploy by HP, it is working.
I don't think it is a marketing ploy when they are losing hundreds of dollars on each touchpad (components apparently cost 300 bucks a pop). Plus they are losing out on a 1.4 billion dollar deal that they are ultimately dropping support of. This is not including the millions in marketing on a dead product.
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