Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis of consumer technology, the NPD Group, said that the price of $ 99 for the HP touchpad was "a different value for the promise of" sense of consumer prices to the point where they are willing to take a chance - even the touchpad. HP and Best Buy's site, both marked and selling off the touchpad.
The good news for Hewlett-Packard is that their shelf TouchPad products / services in question eventually sold like hotcakes. HP website has sold the tablet, and Best Buy stores. The two companies said they will give a better price for all customers who bought the touch pad to its previous price.
The right price
According to Cathie Lesjak, HP's CFO, the software related products / services side of the platform webOS is closed.
Other uses for webOS
The company wanted to position the touch pad key to competitor Apple iPad category-defining products / services, a position that is not shared. CEO Leo Apotheker HP said earlier this summer, that HP would have initiated discussions with other companies to license webOS.
WebOS bought when he bought Palm in 2010 for $ 1.2 billion. Some industry observers have speculated that, rather than webOS products, HP may choose to operate more strongly on the webOS related patents.
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