Thread: Reuters: HP should reconsider dumping TouchPad
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Old 09-16-2011, 11:09 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by rhari79 View Post
HP panicked; i cant think of any other way to explain the touchpad firesale.

HP should have given some time for the sales to pick and during that time, boosted the appstore.

Webos/QNX being wasted by shortsightedness.
That they did but I can't say I blame HP. Apple, Google and Microsoft can afford to duke it out in a long war of attrition. While I found the UI of webOS to be very nice, it had a limited number of apps, a bunch of bugs (e.g. faulty page rendering in web browser on the TouchPad) and serious performance issues. Sure, it supports Flash, but when I tried Hulu, video was not particularly fluid. HP needed to sink a lot more money and resources into webOS and I don't think they're willing to do that.
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