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| Jon Rubinstein holds a TouchPad |
Sales of the TouchPad were anemic at best following scathing reviews of its software being buggy and slow, and little selection of applications at launch. Just yesterday news broke out that Best Buy was sitting on a large inventory of TouchPads that were not selling and wanted a refund from HP.
Their phones were not selling very well either, in spite of some of them being free with a 2 year contract.
WebOS has a perfect track record with lackluster devices. The first failure of webOS was the original Pre, the Pixi, then of course the Pre 2, the Veer and now the TouchPad. The Veer is so small and ergonomically awkward to use that many people were wondering why launch such a device after Microsoft's fiasco with the Kin line of phones.
I believe the reason for the Veer was that around that time there were rumors of an iPhone nano so Palm/HP wanted to beat them to market with a tiny phone. That is the only logical explanation for the release of the Veer. Along those same lines, the multiple delays of the Pre 3 were because Apple did not announce the iPhone 5 in June and HP wanted to wait for its specs to make sure that the Pre 3 would launch with similar or better features.
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5 comments:
I didn't see this coming but I am not shocked either
What about the people that just bought a touchpad
They're out of luck
are they going to keep supporting it for those who were dumb enough to buy one?
Another one bites Apple's dust
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