Marco Ament has a lesson for those who would be Ipad competitors:
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HP definitely mismanaged Palm. The TouchPad’s software shouldn’t have shipped when it did. The hardware wasn’t very good. The marketing was insufficient. The retail channel was poorly managed.
But webOS, despite having some great ideas, never became competitive. Palm and webOS’ developers bear most of the responsibility for that, not just HP’s managers.
This is a high-stakes game. Apple is kicking everyone’s asses so much in the “tablet market” that it’s really not accurate to call it that. Competitors need to be great on day one to stand a chance.
webOS was always “getting better soon”. Maybe we should finally give up our unfounded hope, like HP probably has, that webOS ever could have been great, because it never was.
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Although he specifically references webOS here, its a message for everyone. Now Amazon so far has a good record of putting out products that are good from day one. However, a tablet is a step up in complexity from an reader device or an ereader app. I'm hoping from competitiveness' sake that they do get it right.