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HP Announces WebOS-Based TouchPad Tablet, Pre 3 and Veer Smartphones

oldwatery said:
Maybe I'm mistaken...but isn't that what Apple did? But they made a waaaay bigger deal out of it.
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No. Apple didn't give a 4-6 month lead on what they will be releasing concerning the iPad. The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010, by Steve Jobs at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

The iPad was released April 3, 2010.

That's a whopping 5 weeks.

More to the point, Apple announced a new market and within 5 weeks it was fulfilling that market.

HP is announcing an entry into this market 4-6 months ahead of time.

Meanwhile, iPad 2 will be out globally in dozens of countries and we'll all be discussing OS X 10.7 and the next iOS version.
 
TH3D4RKKN1GH7 said:
Total copy and past
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:rolleyes:
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I'm not being sarcastic. Those two devices look nothing alike in either software or design.
 
NT1440 said:
Just learned that TouchPad isn't going to be out until summer. :mad:

Tech companies: APPLE ***** on you guys because they release things in a timely matter after announcement, how the **** have you not learned this yet??

HP boardroom - "Guys, we've got a great device here, you know what we should do? Demo it 6 months before we actually release it and let Apple just solidify their lead with their actual shipping product!"

"Genius! Get this man a raise!"

Dumbasses. :rolleyes:
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You forgot (great post btw) that price was not mentioned either- that just gives this post all the more credit. Let's see what :apple: does with iPad2, and find out how much we want this to be a lost leader.
 
Do we really need another mobile OS with it's own app structure and so on.

Now we got:
Blackberry
Apple
Microsoft
Google
and now HP sporting their own OS.

Tbh, I don't think there is a market for 5 different non-cross-compatible OS:s and at least one will go over the next year or two.
HP has a good opportunity to be successful and now that Microsofts biggest ally in the mobile market is going on its own they are gonna have problems (well, even more problems), but they've got funds to go on forever.
 
Time for Apple to step up the game which I am sure is coming full force, but HP has good products and the Palm devices always had a smooth OS, should be interesting, although this summer it might be too late with the iPad2 already out by then?
 
0815 said:
Might be a success if they sell it for dumping prices ... otherwise I don't see this to compete against the iPad2 - hell by the time this one comes out we will already read iOS6 and iPad3 rumors .....
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Uh... well technically if you take the retina rumors into account, we're already hearing about the iPad3
 
Not trying to be a fanboy, but the similarities between this and the iPad are too apparent to say it's a coincidence.
 
JKK photography said:
No ecosystem in the traditional sense. Instead, they have a different kind. Some of the continuous client stuff they showed is very cool, and will only get better as the features and hardware matures. This isn't a dead end; people like ecosystems, but they aren't everything.
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I hear ya and don't disagree, but I do think the general consumer wants a device like the iPad (or any tablet) that has lots of content available for it. A tablet is a "consuming" device (i.e. music, Books, movies, apps, etc...) and I think customers find it enjoyable with an iPad they can easily find lots to consume without going far.

Cool features only go so far if you don't use them all the time.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
sounds like the deeper pockets was a good thing for palm.



I am not sure what to say but that is pretty bad fanboyism in that post.

That keynott background and font is fairly common to us. I have seen quite a few keynotts on things that have nothing to do with technology and that type of font on a background like that is just common to us. It is easy on the eyes and eye to read.
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Its not fanboyism but the truth...they tired to make it look like a Apple press conference....but they did not have Steve Jobs...

I like how all these companies are shooting their wads early...the IPAD 2 is gonna have some suprises for all.
 
LaDirection said:
*******, not only do they copy the device, they can't even come up with their own keynote fonts and background...
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... it is not the same font .. and it is not the same background (granted, it is similar though).

T.
 
mdriftmeyer said:
No. Apple didn't give a 4-6 month lead on what they will be releasing concerning the iPad. The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010, by Steve Jobs at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

The iPad was released April 3, 2010.

That's a whopping 5 weeks.

More to the point, Apple announced a new market and within 5 weeks it was fulfilling that market.

HP is announcing an entry into this market 4-6 months ahead of time.

Meanwhile, iPad 2 will be out globally in dozens of countries and we'll all be discussing OS X 10.7 and the next iOS version.
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I think you forgot a month. There are 66 days, or ~9 1/2 weeks between 1/27/2010 and 4/3/2010. :D
 
petvas said:
HP just announced that WebOS is coming to PCs! This makes things very interesting.
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One of the top PC vendors is now behind Linux (or at least the webOS skinned variant) on the desktop for the consumer. It's about time. (As long as they allow somehow breaking into the command-line as well.)

Another arrow across Microsoft's bow.
 
It has a dock at the bottom of the screen! Holy innovation!

Has anyone written "competition is good" yet? My day isn't complete if I don't read that little chestnut. Such original thinking seems appropriate on a thread about this device...
 
I was excited to see what they came up with as I was always a fan of WebOS. Hardware specs are similar to what I expect the iPad 2 to be.

Hard to get excited about anything since they left out the the answers to the biggest questions - when will it be available and more importantly how much? If it is priced like the Xoom the first question doesn't mean anything to me. Of course if the Xoom's price was announced at CES it wouldn't have gotten all the press that it ended up getting.

Apple at times has pre-announced products like this, but I don't think they have ever pre-announced hardware products without a price.
 
Jeaz said:
Do we really need another mobile OS with it's own app structure and so on.

Now we got:
Blackberry
Apple
Microsoft
Google
and now HP sporting their own OS.

Tbh, I don't think there is a market for 5 different non-cross-compatible OS:s and at least one will go over the next year or two.
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Agreed. Blackberry, Symbian and MeeGo are toast. Android and Apple are the winners. Microsoft and HP will be fighting over spot #3, which might still turn out to be big enough to be at least slightly profitable.
 
I don't understand why HP would relegate themselves to "also ran" status right from the start... I understand adopting successful technologies, but if the best they can do is mimic a year old market leader from top to bottom, and their marketing can't even create a new image through creative naming, what's the point?

There's a lot of hoots and hollers about competition in these threads, but the only time competition is really useful is if it drives innovation forward. This is just competition as a backstop-- HP is ensuring Apple doesn't go backwards, but doing little to actually drive innovation.
 
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