Thread: HP Touchpad: 'the last stand for competitors for the iPad'
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Old 06-21-2011, 07:44 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan View Post
You have a short memory or are too young to remember macbooks getting so hot and burning people's laps. Or OS Leopard problems of '07, iMac display problems in '07, and on and on back to the Apple Newton from 1988, or the shadow of a bankruptcy in 2002.

A person has to have a significant amount of emotional bias against Apple to believe that Apple's success is solely because of a sympathetic media and mindless robot customers.
Preach it brother.

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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan View Post
As for Android tablets competing with the iPad, Google stumbled significantly IMO with the non-release of Honeycomb. In a fledgling market with a rapidly growing 800lb gorilla there is no room for a misstep.

It is fascinating to see how everyone laughed at the iPad when it was first announced in Jan 2010, but resulted in companies like HP scrapping their tablet plans.
Amen.
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