HP Kills TouchPad, Support for webOS Devices
Chloe Albanesius,
PC Mag,
Aug 24, 2011
This one impact me personally because I have a Palm Pre smartphone: HP has killed the Pre, the TouchPad, and other Web OS devices. The loss of the hardware is trivial, but the loss of the operating system, which was in many ways innovative, is more significant. When it acquired it with palm, "HP said Palm's webOS would allow it to take advantage of features such as true multitasking and always up-to-date information sharing across applications." Too bad, really. More from Wired. Interestingly, when HP slashed the prce of the TouchPad to $100 as a fire-sale price, it became the hottest thing on the web. "The meteoric rise in TouchPad demand after the big price cut tells us a couple things — 1.) The public saw value in the TouchPad, just not at the same price as the iPad, and 2.) There’s still a wide open opportunity for a low-cost tablet maker to sneak in with a viable product and grab a lot of market share."
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