Re:HP to produce one more batch of Touchpads
by ridave on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @03:19PM
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No, probably not. Console games average price is $50 USD, what is an average tablet app cost -- $3.99? Even if they were selling millions of first party apps, it wouldn't recoup the amount of money they lost on the tablet + app development.
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Re:HP to produce one more batch of Touchpads
by mikeknoop on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @03:27PM
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I'm not sure what HP's app market looks like. Do they take 30%?
Also if they can't directly monetize their hardware, this might be a strategy that Amazon (or Google if they ever make an in-house tablet) should look at since they both have large web platforms to extract life-time value of hardware owners.