After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP

Re:After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP by mattmiller on Friday August 26, 2011 @02:29PM (#2929398)

A part of me thinks that this is whole thing is a marketing gimmick to create a bunch of touchpad fans.

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Re:After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP by notatoad on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:44PM (#2929894)

not to create touchpad fans, the touchpad is dead. it's about creating webos fans. what they're doing with the firesale and now with the apps is increasing the value of the platform so they can sell or license it for a higher price

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Re:After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP by sliverstorm on Friday August 26, 2011 @07:39PM (#2930357)

That's a rather clever salvage plan. I would not have thought to try that.

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Re:After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP by rbanffy on Friday August 26, 2011 @08:19PM (#2930440)

Apotheker wants to make his stupid plan of turning HP into a software company look brilliant. It's not. Building tablets is more profitable than licensing WebOS will ever be. Who'll want it when Android has far more apps available and a very low licensing cost? Even if they manage to extract $12 per device sold, they will have to sell 100 million of them to recover Palm's acquisition cost alone. This is lunacy. I love WebOS, but this is a very bad plan.

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Re:After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP by wccrawford on Friday August 26, 2011 @02:47PM (#2929478)

Of course it is. The question is: Will it work?

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Re:After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP by mattmiller on Friday August 26, 2011 @02:51PM (#2929499)

They got me. The touchpad is pretty cool.

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Re:After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP by dpio on Friday August 26, 2011 @02:47PM (#2929479)

I hope so.

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