You drunk or stupid this morning?
Is Apple still selling iPads, Powerbooks and Mac Airs like hot cakes. Yes.
Apple has released sales figures for today, the first day this pricing went into effect?
You drunk or stupid this morning?
Is Apple still selling iPads, Powerbooks and Mac Airs like hot cakes. Yes.
in a few months nobody will even remember the touchpad.
HP's US site show out of stock.
and of course Canadian price is still 400...
It's calculated HP has burned through ~300,000 of these things this weekend.
As far as it killing other tablet sales, yeah, for right now, but honestly $99 is impulse buy territory, and a lot of folks will be disappointed in them, the reviews aren't good. Look for them to show up used for $75 soon, most won't port Android to them, most won't tweak them to make them a bit faster. They may well decide they want a better tablet come Christmas time
in a few months nobody will even remember the touchpad.
why would you even waste your time with a obsolete item?
Some people are buying them simply as media players, 10" digital photo frames even.
Mine is doing photo frame duty as I type this.
Doesn't seem very energy efficient to do that.
If for some reason nobody is able to fully crack it and get android on there, well, it's a $99 portable media player / web browser at worst.
If you want something for the car, I'd strongly suggest getting a 7" Android tablet. Something with a Cyanogen Mod port to it. You can customize the hell out of it for a car interface, but it will likely have your core functionality working - Wifi, BT, audio out, GPS, etc. Something with an FM tuner could really be built around as a car media center, especially if you have a Double DIN dash opening and want to get creative.
I find the core notion behind this thread just bizarre - Apple and Google are supposed to be afraid of losing market share because HP has dumped a bunch of unsalable tablets at a loss? Yeah, good luck with that . . .
Doesn't seem very energy efficient to do that.
Agreed. This is nothing but a blip on the radar for Apple/Android. Sure, it'll eat into a small percentage of sales for the next week or two, but then it'll be business as usual.
What this does show is that other tablets are far overpriced and the huge market for a low priced tablet is obviously there. I'd imagine if Apple released something in the $175-$199 range it would sell out big time.
What this really shows is that there's a huge market for current technology going for 1/3 the manufacturing cost. Apple would never built a tablet for $199 at this point in time because the corners they'd have to cut to reach that price range (same price range as a Kindle 3G) would result in a very crappy product.