Earlier this week I noticed the 32GB model at Costco for $479 — $120 off the standard $599 price. Then, a few minutes ago, while watching ABC’s “Modern Family,” I caught an HP TouchPad ad touting that the entry level model is being offered for $399, a Benjamin Franklin less than the original asking price.
No matter how you look at it, two price cuts a month after releasing a product is not good.
Consumers doesn’t like WebOS as much tech pundits do, apparently.
Kind of a shame. I wanted to see this tablet do well. Out of the entire parade of iPad competitors, this is the only one that struck me as having any moxie. It’s one thing to fail at stealing Apple’s lead, but things have to really be bad for them to reduce their price twice within a month of release.
No surprises here. Go back to the 90s and check out the OS/2 vs Windows 3.1 war.
People don’t care about “true” multitasking and it will never sell units. When Win95 came out and you could print in the background, most people thought that was akin to the discovery of fire. And I say this not as an insult to people, but just what non-techies are focused on. They are focused on getting things done, not on edge cases.
Seeing video run in a window while checking email is not useful to most.
I sure hope HP gets as much flack for lowering the price twice in one month as Apple got for lowering the price of the first iPhone one time a couple months after it was released.
I wonder if this is a strategic move on HP’s side.
Sure, it shows that HP didn’t do their marketing homework before entering the iPad market —namely finding out how much people are willing to pay for a good tablet that isn’t an iPad— but I get the feeling that they’re trying to di this right now, knowing full-well that they have a successor to the TouchPad in the final stages of development.