When HP announced that they would be canning the recently released HP touchpad I don’t think I was the only person in total shock, especially after the huge investment in Palm and their exciting Web OS.
Many retailers had not even taken shipment of their first batch of HP touchpads when news broke that HP would be discontinuing all devices running Web OS, tablets and PC’s included. Last week’s ‘quick fire’ price drop sale wasn’t the first time in the touchpad’s short lifespan that it’s price had been slashed, the original price point of $499.00 USD was slashed to $399.00 for a short period only to be snubbed by consumers for the iPad 2.
Since the quick fire sale the world seems to have gone touchpad mad with retailers reporting sell outs in record time and vastly inflated units being sold on Amazon and auction website’s such as eBay.
But surely with a manufacturing cost of $300.00 there was no way that HP could release anymore batches…… well that’s exactly what they plan to do to meet the ‘unfulfilled demand’ this batch will be available as of the end October and will keep the same ‘quick fire’ price points.
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