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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
If you're going to succeed with a new OS, you need content; and that means getting big names onboard from the get go. Where's Netflix? Hulu? That's the only way you'll attract developers.
Amazon will succeed as a tablet maker. HP failed miserably.
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Maybe I did not explain myself correctly.
For the Touchpad, in order to succeed, HP had to invest many, many millions of dollars, in order to improve market or even releasing a second tablet. And such move was not going to ensure profitability short term anyway.
Hopefully Amazon will be good, but neither you or myself, know that at this moment. They took a high risk. Let's see if the sales backed that up.
By the way, Touchpad included Amazon's Kindle on its release. There were other companies that included some apps as well.
They released the product too early, with the bad results we all know. However, it is kind of funny that even with all those flaws, people bought Touchpads like hot cakes. So it was not only apps, after all.