After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP

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Post by karteek » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 6:07 PM UTC

After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP
blog.palm.com

Re: After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP

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Post by mattmiller » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 6:29 PM UTC

A part of me thinks that this is whole thing is a marketing gimmick to create a bunch of touchpad fans.

Re: After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP

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Post by r00fus » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 6:46 PM UTC

To me, this smacks of Palm just continuing executing in spite of Corporate's (ie, Apotheker's) decisive move.

Good for Palm.

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Post by wccrawford » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 6:47 PM UTC

mattmiller wrote: post #2

A part of me thinks that this is whole thing is a marketing gimmick to create a bunch of touchpad fans.

Of course it is. The question is: Will it work?

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Post by dpio » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 6:47 PM UTC

wccrawford wrote: post #4

mattmiller wrote: post #2

A part of me thinks that this is whole thing is a marketing gimmick to create a bunch of touchpad fans.

Of course it is. The question is: Will it work?

I hope so.

Re: After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP

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Post by mattmiller » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 6:51 PM UTC

wccrawford wrote: post #4

mattmiller wrote: post #2

A part of me thinks that this is whole thing is a marketing gimmick to create a bunch of touchpad fans.

Of course it is. The question is: Will it work?

They got me. The touchpad is pretty cool.

Re: After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP

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Post by jeffclark » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 6:57 PM UTC

It's strange. $99 firesale, new TouchPads in the hands of a bunch of nerds, show off some "good" (not not "great") apps by giving them away.

I kinda hope it's all marketing hype. But now I want decent, functioning apps for this thing.

I created a legit WebOS app for myself in about 30 minutes. The development of these apps are unbelievably quick since it's just HTML/CSS/JS.

Your entire dev environment is a text editor, a WebKit browser and the inspection pane - the same one built into Chrome/Safari/Whathaveyou.

It'd be a shame to see WebOS completely die off.

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Post by diminish » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 7:02 PM UTC

i am curious now how much share this firesale gives the touchpad got in q3 2011.

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Post by angryasian » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 7:08 PM UTC

received message that promo codes were no longer valid because of exceeded usage.

sent from HP Touchpad

Re: After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP

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Post by JLW » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 7:23 PM UTC

jeffclark wrote: post #7

It's strange. $99 firesale, new TouchPads in the hands of a bunch of nerds, show off some "good" (not not "great") apps by giving them away. I kinda hope it's all marketing hype. But now I want decent, functioning apps for this thing. I created a legit WebOS app for myself in about 30 minutes. The development of these apps are unbelievably quick since it's just HTML/CSS/JS. Your entire dev environment is a text edito…

Sadly it's starting to look that way