Re:Amazon in talks with HP to buy Palm
by pooriaazimi on Friday September 30, 2011 @10:06AM
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There's no market for TouchPad software. Those customers just bought TouchPads because they were cheap, not because they want to use them regularly (like iPad and probably Kindle Fire). If TouchPad wasn't $99, they couldn't even sell 25,000 of them. They sold 1M by losing money and going out of business, not by creating an ecosystem which can 'trap' customers (and make them buy their future products just because their apps and music works only on that device) like what Apple and Amazon do.
Re:Amazon in talks with HP to buy Palm
by firefoxman1 on Friday September 30, 2011 @10:29AM
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Actually, I had just been waiting for the price to come down, but I am going to use my Touchpad for just about everything but development. I love WebOS, and I'm not saying there are many of us, but WebOS fans are pretty devoted. Kind of like Apple fanboys back in the day.
> There's no market for TouchPad software.
Tell that to this guy: http://twitter.com/#!/PalmFlashCards/status/1147168660978442...
...along with at least 1 million webOS users? Who are currently buying software from the webOS store, and are likely to buy future webOS hardware from Amazon (or whoever else how makes it)? Really?