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HP kills TouchPad, looks to exit PC business

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Wow, two months after releasing the new tablet, and WHAM. I guess HP got into the craze way too late. They should've aimed after something truly innovative, like transforming notebook tablets with removable screens. That is a product people could use.
 
lxskllr said:
Last I read(I don't follow Android closely), Honeycomb wasn't finished, so they didn't want to release the code. Google has a lot invested in the Android name, and a bunch of Chinese manufacturers releasing craptastic half-baked Android tablets won't help the name any. Ideal? no, but I understand their reasoning, and as long as the code gets released, that's good enough for me.
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Right now, I'm not betting on Honeycomb being released. I think Ice Cream will be.
 
SlitheryDee said:
Sometimes really big businesses do things that baffle me. Why in the world would they want to get out of a market they are dominating? I mean the PC business, not webos and tablets.

Are they just trying to do this in advance of the ultimate death of the PC? If so it seems a bit premature.
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race to the bottom, no margin on low priced laptops and pcs = slow death business.
 
0roo0roo said:
race to the bottom, no margin on low priced laptops and pcs = slow death business.
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I remember the margins on low end laptops and PCs even for end retailers like NCIX (don't work there as of a week ago) was so low some of our sales guys would go out of their way to avoid selling them. On some of the low end units it was laughably low. Even some of the mid high end laptops we were making maybe $20-30 off of. Now NCIX was a discount retailer so we made less than some other retailers but probably no more than HP would make selling direct, maybe less?
 
HP hasn't been HP for a long time now, not since they spun off agilent and hired what's her name. The ink cartridge company can burn for all I care.
 
spidey07 said:
Walk into a data center and point out the apple. Go find it. Be bold and build it.
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This. Also go walk down the halls of the average corporation and you can probably count the number of Macs you see on one hand. We have a few Mac users here (mainly programmers) but there is really no reason they need to be on Macs despite their protests.

Apple is big in the consumer space but aside from certain niches, is nothing in the business world.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
This. Also go walk down the halls of the average corporation and you can probably count the number of Macs you see on one hand. We have a few Mac users here (mainly programmers) but there is really no reason they need to be on Macs despite their protests.

Apple is big in the consumer space but aside from certain niches, is nothing in the business world.
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Depends on the business. In marketing/advertising, pharmaceuticals and many internet companies, it's Apple. All of our developers here use Macs. Same for the academic space.
 
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Wow, two months after releasing the new tablet, and WHAM. I guess HP got into the craze way too late. They should've aimed after something truly innovative, like transforming notebook tablets with removable screens. That is a product people could use.
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Came in late, with a buggy and over-priced product. The only reason Andriod is getting traction in the tablet space now is due to the Asus Transformer and recent $100+ discounts on other tablets. They're still buggy but at least they're not priced the same as an iPad.
 
Capt Caveman said:
Depends on the business. In marketing/advertising, pharmaceuticals and many internet companies, it's Apple. All of our developers here use Macs. Same for the academic space.
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Yes, it does, but my point is that you're not going to see many large-scale Mac deployments in Fortune 500 companies compared to Windows deployments.
 
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/08/19/hp-tested-webos-on-an-ipad-it-ran-over-twice-as-fast/

HP’s WebOS team almost certainly had an idea that the company’s new tablet, the TouchPad, had very little chance of challenging Apple’s dominance in the tablet market, as the company’s webOS operating system was running “over twice as fast” on its rival’s iPad 2 tablet, a source close to the subject revealed to The Next Web.

The hardware reportedly stopped the team from innovating beyond certain points because it was slow and imposed constraints, which was highlighted when webOS was loaded on to Apple’s iPad device and found to run the platform significantly faster than the device for which it was originally developed.

With a focus on web technologies, webOS could be deployed in the iPad’s Mobile Safari browser as a web-app; this produced similar results, with it running many times faster in the browser than it did on the TouchPad.
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Wow, don't know what to say when their OS runs that much slower on the hardware it was designed for compared to the iPad 2 which hit the market 4 months earlier.
 
OutHouse said:
HP PC"s are shit.

the company should stick with making high end servers and personal/corporate printers. that's their bread and butter.
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This.
I had two HP personal pcs that were total crap. I would never buy a personal PC from them again. But the HP servers used at one of my previous jobs kicked ass. And I do like the printers better than most others.
 
I'm going to be watching ebay for a deal on a touchpad just to play with. Should be able to get one cheap now.
 
Checked my mail just now and found this:
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$99 per month for 12 months. "Every Day Low Price: $899.99" 😀
 
spidey07 said:
Walk into a data center and point out the apple. Go find it. Be bold and build it.
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I work for a web hosting company... small/mid-sized I guess? last time I heard, we had somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 servers spread across 5 data centers (probably 80% in our 3 US data centers, and then we have small footprints in China/Europe)

we'll support anything a client wants to pay for.

I've never actually seen it, but I heard that we have 1 apple xserve in our California data center. 😉

(the rest of our servers are miles of HP's and a small chunk of Sun's)
 
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