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Of course the TouchPad is an awesome tablet! I wouldn't trade it for another model.That being said, they could have made a tablet that looked a lot better and paid Netflix and some other important app providers to come on board and they would have had a hit. HP was just too slow and inflexible.
And while from the PC hardware side they didn't generate a lot of profits on a percentage basis, it is still a lot of money in absolute terms. Some of their PCs are really wonderfully thought out and styled, and of superior quality (like the Elite notebook 2740p I am using right now). Compared to Apple they obviously didn't do enough to squeeze their supply chain and didn't spend enough on marketing and making their products sexy. I guess that was where WebOS was supposed to come in -- a way to differentiate themselves, not just sell a box with standard software (be it Windows or Android). They just didn't execute.
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