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HP panicked; i cant think of any other way to explain the touchpad firesale.
There are not enough apps and most people seem to buy it for a quick profit on resale. There are just too many now-overpriced touchpads on sale in ebay.
I have quite a few apple and android devices. There are many people out there with similar lock-ins(via purchases). All these people are not going to change overnight and purchase a touchpad.
HP should have given some time for the sales to pick and during that time, boosted the appstore.
I think the same goes for Playbook too. I was almost ready to purchase one, when i realised there is no way to sideload books in it. So dropped the plan.
2 wonderful concepts: Webos/QNX being wasted by shortsightedness.
Maemo/Meego is another.
They seemed like fresh air in the now boring ios/android world.
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