Tuesday, October 4, 2011

MC2 Post 1054 HP- New CEO But Same Old HP GAMES




TouchPad Tablet briefly Returns to 

HP's Sales Page

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It seems the Folks at HP 
Just-Don't-Read-the-Tech-News.

 
A few montha ago when HP was trying to figure out if it was a Consumer Computer company or not, it probably Flipped a coin in the air and it came up Tails.

The X month old CEO of HP stated they were dropping the Consumer Division in favor of Corporate Services.  Like

IBM.  And with that, they dropped the price of their X month old TouchPad Tablet, that was going NowWhere Fast, from

$399 to $99 Bucks.  The damn thing sold like something coming from Apple.  The X month old CEO was given the bums

rush by the Board, and HP said it was rustling up another batch of TouchPad Goodies for those that Missed-the-Deal.  

Please sign Up and we'll tell you when the Next Batch is Ready.

 
I signed up.  

Hey, at $99 bucks it was a pretty good Hackers-Deal. 

Days passed, and I would get eMails about HP Printers and Ink Cartridges but nothing about the "forget-about-it" TouchPad.

 

Then I came across this post by Brooke Crothers at Cnet.  

It seems HP had TouchPads on their Sales Page --  

Some 32GB TouchPads for sale at $250 Bucks, and the 16GB TouchPad for $219 bucks.

Both, of course, quickly Sold Out.

 

The Take-Away?


For HP, the small window of opportunity has come and gone.

 
-- Even at $50 bucks, the TouchPad is 
No-Longer a Good Deal --  
 
Not with the New Amazon Kindle Fire at $199.  Better Hardware (It's the Blackberry Playbook you know.) and a Much More Stable and Savy Tech Company -- Amazon backing it.

 
Links to the CNET Article:




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Goodbye HP TouchPad, Hello Amazon Kindle FIRE!

Wingman
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