Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads
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Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads
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Re: Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads
#2I don't think people bought the TouchPads because they wanted a low-quality "couch surfing" device; they bought them because they knew it was an incredible price for the hardware, and with all the media hype happening, they had to buy them before they ran out and then figure out a use for them later.
Even I was considering buying one, and I knew I would have played with it for half an hour and then never touched it again.
Re: Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads
#3Fire sales always have a novelty. Its not so much the price point but the innate human desire to pick up things at a price they otherwise could not have afforded or wanted to.
Re: Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads
#4WebOS is a terrible, flawed, slow as molasses OS.
WebOS will never gain traction because apps on it will always be much slower than native compiled apps on iOS or even JITed apps on Android.
It's that simple. No amount of buzzword compliance is going to change that.
Just look at this benchmark:
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4658/40733.png
The device/OS which relies on JavaScript performance for everything is the slowest when it comes to JavaScript performance. :) Even if they could 2-2.5x performance, it'd still be noticeably slower than iOS or Android.
Anyone who thinks people are buying these TouchPads because they think they're a viable product is delusional at best. People are buying them because they're $99, and $99 doesn't buy you much these days.
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#5WebOS is a terrible, flawed, slow as molasses OS. WebOS will never gain traction because apps on it will always be much slower than native compiled apps on iOS or even JITed apps on Android. It's that simple. No amount of buzzword compliance is going to change that. Just look at this benchmark: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4658/40733.png The device/OS which relies on JavaScript performance for everything i…
That's why I want one to test my web apps, keeping in line with yesterday's discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2911935.
But I haven't seen any fire sales here in the UK. The cheapest I've found is for ~£160 on ebay from people who bought the $99 ones in the US.
Re: Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads
#6WebOS is a terrible, flawed, slow as molasses OS. WebOS will never gain traction because apps on it will always be much slower than native compiled apps on iOS or even JITed apps on Android. It's that simple. No amount of buzzword compliance is going to change that. Just look at this benchmark: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4658/40733.png The device/OS which relies on JavaScript performance for everything i…
When they put WebOS on the iPad it ran twice as fast:
http://news.techeye.net/hardware/webos-did-better-on-an-ipad
The problem with the ToughPad was that the hardware was appallingly slow.
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#7WebOS is a terrible, flawed, slow as molasses OS. WebOS will never gain traction because apps on it will always be much slower than native compiled apps on iOS or even JITed apps on Android. It's that simple. No amount of buzzword compliance is going to change that. Just look at this benchmark: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4658/40733.png The device/OS which relies on JavaScript performance for everything i…
That's why I want one to test my web apps, keeping in line with yesterday's discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2911935 . But I haven't seen any fire sales here in the UK. The cheapest I've found is for ~£160 on ebay from people who bought the $99 ones in the US.
Dixons/PC World/Curry's had one yesterday online, and in store today. Reduced to £89 I believe.
Re: Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads
#8WebOS is a terrible, flawed, slow as molasses OS. WebOS will never gain traction because apps on it will always be much slower than native compiled apps on iOS or even JITed apps on Android. It's that simple. No amount of buzzword compliance is going to change that. Just look at this benchmark: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4658/40733.png The device/OS which relies on JavaScript performance for everything i…
That's why I want one to test my web apps, keeping in line with yesterday's discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2911935 . But I haven't seen any fire sales here in the UK. The cheapest I've found is for ~£160 on ebay from people who bought the $99 ones in the US.
http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/873167-hp-touchpad-prices-slashe...
£89 in Dixons? Haven't been able to confirm myself.
Re: Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why I want one to test my web apps, keeping in line with yesterday's discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2911935 . But I haven't seen any fire sales here in the UK. The cheapest I've found is for ~£160 on ebay from people who bought the $99 ones in the US.
Dixons/PC World/Curry's had one yesterday online, and in store today. Reduced to £89 I believe.
I checked online yesterday but didn't see any reduced prices. I called Curry's just now and they had a recorded message saying they've sold out. I can't believe I missed it!
Re: Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads
#10translation:
Dear HP: Please Keep Burning Money For Our Entertainment