According to one source who’s seen internal HP reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of the units in its inventory.
A second person who has seen Best Buy’s TouchPad sales figures confirmed the results as “consistent with what I’ve seen,” and went so far as to say that 25,000 sold might be “charitable.” This source suggested that the 25,000-unit sales number may not account for units that consumers return to stores for a refund.
It’s not the year of the tablet, it’s the year of the iPad.
Bit of a shame, really. I tried one of those devices up at Staples and it wasn’t bad; if I couldn’t buy an iPad, I could see myself picking up one of those. Is it me, or will the Android world every come up with a look that doesn’t look like some horrid X11 window manager from the early 1990s?
I heard it was pretty good too.
What about the iPad advantage of there being a large number of universal apps which run both on the iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch? Android doesn’t offer that kind of functionality, does it?
So, perhaps that’s a compelling factor keeping people away from Android tablets.
The TouchPad uses WebOS, not Android.
As the Prices continue to Decrease, I’m tempted to get one as a Development device.
They are available in international markets too, which makes them more practical than their smaller WebOS siblings.
Unfortunately, the WebOS ecosystem won’t grow until more devices make their ways into customers hands.
sad part is that the true is probably that 24999 of the units were returned within a week. The last guy couldn’t find his receipt.
Perhaps if they had gone with Android it wouldn’t be so dismal
And there lies the problem. People don’t know what they are buying when it comes to tablets at this stage. It’s either an ‘iPad’ or ‘not an iPad’. If it falls in the ‘not an iPad’ category people seem confused as to what they are getting. Hence why Apple is suing Samsung; to make sure people know exactly what they are getting.
This.
No, you can’t get decent tablet designed apps for Android either.
I’m wondering how hard HP is working to get some kind of vertical partnership for the device, if only to improve upon some of the awful gadgets I’ve seen NYC municipal property assessors having to carry.
Yes it is you – obviously not an Android fan. Unfortunately it’s the only real competitor to Apple’s stupidly closed source iOS.
The touchpad wasn’t bad when I had a go on it and it’ll be interesting to see if anybody tries to by the patents so we can see something similar in the future.
The TouchPad’s external look was disappointing and talking of looks nothing that compares with the iPad seems to be on the market at present.