Quote:
Originally Posted by FatDog
Not to thread-fart - but what will you guys do with these tablets?
The reviews are so-so and now that the WebOS is no longer supported, chances are you wont find more updates or software for the thing. No Android hack for it yet so you might hope one comes out but thats a bit of a guess.
What are you going to use it for?
|
Even if there will be no, or just limited, new webOS apps, there are at least 300 (probably more now, as that was the launch number, IIRC) apps in the store optimized for the TouchPad (and several thousand more if it can, like iOS and Android, run apps meant for the phone version of the OS). The app store is likely to stay open for quite a while (at least until the massive losses from the fire sale are covered, I'll bet). There will be no problem finding a use for the TouchPad, even if it never gets any cutting-edge apps in the future.
There will likely be one more release of the OS itself (given that they've apparently said they'll be working on it 'til Oct '11), so as long as it doesn't introduce any gamebreaking bugs, a lack of further updates will be no problem. The willingness of 3rd parties to continue work on their existing apps could be a problem, but hopefully HP exercised a bit of quality control before letting apps in and kept out the ones with big bugs, so that shouldn't be so bad.
Really, when compared with the competition in its price range, the TouchPad will continue to look VERY good for quite a while. At least until sub-$200 Android tablets (doubt we'll ever see anything higher than 7" in that range, however) start getting 3.x and capacitive screens, anyways.