Comments on: HP TouchPad gets up to $60 price cut to prompt sales http://www.slashgear.com/hp-touchpad-gets-up-to-60-price-cut-to-prompt-sales-02168907/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 10 May 2012 13:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ezra baraka http://www.slashgear.com/hp-touchpad-gets-up-to-60-price-cut-to-prompt-sales-02168907/#comment-128010 ezra baraka Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:11:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=168907#comment-128010 i was just in best buy and i tried out all the tablets (xoom, asus, htc etc) every single android tablet was sluggish, not slow per se just sluggish. the hp touchpad too!
the only 2 tablets not sluggish were no surprise the ipad 2 and the blackberry playbook.

]]> By: West Cobb Photographer http://www.slashgear.com/hp-touchpad-gets-up-to-60-price-cut-to-prompt-sales-02168907/#comment-127912 West Cobb Photographer Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:38:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=168907#comment-127912 They’re going to have to cut prices another $100 on top of the current ones if they would want me to consider one of these.   I’m not an “Apple fanatic”, but the iPad is the standard right now, and the problem with all of those making tablets is that they’re all charging the EXACT same price for theirs as an iPad – but the iPad is superior in most ways (at least in terms of user experience, app store, polished OS, etc).   If someone is faced with 10 items that all cost the same, and one is clearly better, they’re going to pick… duh….that one.

Lower your prices, THEN we buy.  Marketing 101.

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