Over at Current, Patrick Avenell’s gone through the painstaking process of trying to get quotes on the TouchPad price crash from the other major price tablet vendors. With its tablet launch tipped to be only weeks away (although we’ve already had a look at the finished product) Acer’s the only one really saying much, although full ironic comedy marks to Apple PR, who apparently told him to take up Apple matters… with HP PR.
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Ben H
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 4:18 PMPatrick Avenell’s articles always make me laugh…. at him.
Wolfpack
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 4:36 PMIf i would have scored a Touch pad on Fire sale….i would have actually dropped my idea of buying a Android tablet…..But no way i’m purchasing Acer’s shit
Peter
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 7:40 PMThe Register rated the Iconia pretty decently and I’ve tested it in JBs with moderately good results. I have had bad experiences with Acer before, but had I not purchased my Asus, I’d have gotten the Acer.
Stephen
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 4:49 PMWell, I bought a TouchPad. There’s no way I’ll be able to go to my funds manager and say “Honey, Acer has this wonderful tablet coming out and I really can use two tablets for…?”.
Of course, if you read what Acer said a little more carefully they didn’t say the HP discounting wouldn’t affect their sales.
BenDTU
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 4:55 PMIf I were a tablet maker, I’d be looking to include as many touchpad-like features as possible for 12 months time when all the TouchPad owners want a new tablet because theirs has issues and is no longer supported.
John
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 5:29 PMWeren’t selling before…
Aren’t selling now.
Richard
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 6:49 PMWell its pretty understandable that it hasn’t had an effect. While the Touchpad is surely the focus due to the proximity of the release, the real failure and casualty was really WebOS to not gain the traction internally that they appear to have originally intended when they said it’d reach as far as desktops and printers.
It wasn’t so much sales as it was HP deciding they had no use for Web OS and t comes at a time when they seem to be reevaluating their entire presence in the consumer market.
Dennis
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 8:15 PMBenDTU – There are people working on porting Android over to the Touchpad so that when the WebOS stuff runs out of steam we can switch over to the Android OS.
Apparently they are working on Android 2.? first and intend to push through to Honeycomb when Google release the source code.
Im happy with my Touchpad so far but am going to reset it back to factory so i can change my location to USA because apparently there are paid apps on the US store that us aussies cant get to. How stupid.
Mr Odd
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 10:10 PMwebOS isn’t dead, far from it. HP is moving to do software more than hardware.