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HP to Reenter Tablet Market with Windows 8
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Bizarre. The WebOS was the best thing about the HP TouchPad. The hardware (& initial price) is what brought it down. So now they kick the OS to the curb and keep the H/W. I'm not going to prejudge Win 8 tabs but if this is the kind of h/w its going to be put on it's a rather inauspicious start.
This, I was hoping they would come up with their own OS non Android, non Windows based to give apple a run.
Another HP Massive FAIL in the Making!
HP bough Compaq and the both had Windows Mobile Phones made by HTC. FAIL. HP kills off Compaq WinMO platform. FAIL. HP kills off HP WinMo planform. FAIL. HP Buys Palm, has great platform, then Yep you gessoed it. MASSIVE FAIL!.
The scream in such desperation.
HP bough Compaq and the both had Windows Mobile Phones made by HTC. FAIL. HP kills off Compaq WinMO platform. FAIL. HP kills off HP WinMo planform. FAIL. HP Buys Palm, has great platform, then Yep you gessoed it. MASSIVE FAIL!.
The scream in such desperation.
There are some really biased opinions on this thread, but that's typical. HP was probably just trying to jump on a trend without a real business or development plan in place. If it was Apple, you wouldn't hear anything directly until something was in place and ready for mass market consumption.
Because using something made by Apple and something not made by Apple aren't mutually exclusive options.
LOL!
HP's strategy is: "We throw ourselves to it, and if we stick, we take it".
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Kinda reminds us of OS/2...
Pretty much what I was thinking.
Of all the tablet-related news I've seen in the last year, the one thing that struck me as a possible true iPad competitor would be an open source platform based around WebOS. It's just jaw-dropping to me that HP has that in their arsenal and yet they are going to reflexively go back to what they're comfy with--being one of the hardware divisions of Microsoft. I could see an open source tablet platform (one based on a quality OS, so don't mention the clusterf*ck called Android please) giving Apple a real run for its money and HP could lead the way. So puzzling.
All of you people hoping HP fails are idiots.
Apple is just a brand. I have no religious affiliation with it.
More successful products = more competition = more innovation = cheaper prices = happy consumers.
Period. HP isn't some "evil company". I hope Windows 8 tablets become very successful and give Apple a run for it's money.
Apple is just a brand. I have no religious affiliation with it.
More successful products = more competition = more innovation = cheaper prices = happy consumers.
Period. HP isn't some "evil company". I hope Windows 8 tablets become very successful and give Apple a run for it's money.
I said the UI not the OS. It just looks so clunky. Compared to the iPhone or Android UI it looks like Win3 vs. Windows 7
When talking about consumer products UI = OS, and sorry, but no. The grid of icons is the ancient UI - it has been 5 years for iOS, but before that, there was Blackberry OS, and Palm way before that (both essentially a grid of icons).
Again, have you even used a WP device?
Didn't Steve Jobs say something along those lines, too? It is borderline catastrophic how little innovation and thought goes into their products.
Ha Ha. I've been waiting for an Intel tablet with a real operating system, either OS X or Windows capable of running Photoshop. After spending considerable time on the Building Windows 8 blogsite a Metro tablet strikes me as a huge, ugly, moderately functional mess.
Other than for running Office, an iPad is an altogether better choice for a tablet OS than WinRT. Microsoft has a ton of work to do between now and this fall if Metro tablets aren't going to suck badly.
At this point it looks like Metro is going to be a confusing pile of brightly-colored rectangles guiding users through a wannabe-like-Apple closed system buying apps from a wannabe-like-Apple app store. I'm pretty confident how this is going to turn out. Surprise me MS!
Sorry HP, it's not your fault, you just build hardware some of which is quite good.
Other than for running Office, an iPad is an altogether better choice for a tablet OS than WinRT. Microsoft has a ton of work to do between now and this fall if Metro tablets aren't going to suck badly.
At this point it looks like Metro is going to be a confusing pile of brightly-colored rectangles guiding users through a wannabe-like-Apple closed system buying apps from a wannabe-like-Apple app store. I'm pretty confident how this is going to turn out. Surprise me MS!
Sorry HP, it's not your fault, you just build hardware some of which is quite good.
HP Tablet Fire Sale 2 - can't wait
Only joking, fair play to them, but not surprised by this news really.
Only joking, fair play to them, but not surprised by this news really.
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