http://www.slashgear.com/hp-looks-to-give-consumer-tablets-another-go-17243218/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/hp-looks-to-give-consumer-tablets-another-go-17243218/#comment-232247 AmiRami Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:45:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=243218#comment-232247 I guess those tablets will have to run Android since they refused windows rt and i’m guessing won’t go with PalmOS again.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/hp-looks-to-give-consumer-tablets-another-go-17243218/#comment-232141 Eleeflyguy43 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:50:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=243218#comment-232141 bradley, divorced guy, was passed over for CEO because the board didn’t want a potential scandal with a diborcee. too bad he is making moves without the backing of the board or its ceo, who can pull yhe plug on psg at any time

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/hp-looks-to-give-consumer-tablets-another-go-17243218/#comment-232043 Xuanlong Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:23:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=243218#comment-232043 The TouchPad had a lot of problems, including it’s chunky hardware, poor marketing, and too-high price, but chief among them would probably be it’s bush league OS. I guess HP thought it was that simple just to strike it rich like Apple. But WebOS was just trapped in a vicious cycle. Few apps meant few consumers would choose it over it’s competitors, few consumers choosing it meant less developer interest (again, thanks to much more attractive platforms from competitors), and less developer interest meant less apps, which goes back to the lack of consumers. The best thing HP could have done was dump WebOS, and now they’ve done that with Gram.
While the TouchPad was a disaster, HP realizes that there is still money to be made in the tablet market. While the TouchPad was unimpressive hardware-wise, that wasn’t it’s biggest problem. Supporting Windows 8/RT instead of WebOS gives them an advantage on the software front, as opposed to a liability. With an OS as huge as Windows 8 is going to be, all they have to do is price whatever tablet they build reasonably, and they can at least make a buck. Though I’m sure HP could still screw it up, since they’re HP. No matter what kind of tablet they make, I doubt it will fly off the shelves, just because HP tends to have a lot of missteps with major products.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/hp-looks-to-give-consumer-tablets-another-go-17243218/#comment-232022 1wallymc Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:06:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=243218#comment-232022 I can’t figure this out, they just set up Gram as a separate unit that used to be Palm that made tablets, now this. Wait and see I guess

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