Hewlett-Packard: TouchPad News and Discussion Thread
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The camera on this thing absolutely sucks!!! Fortunately I dont really care about it, but it surprises me that they neglected that component. The image quality is typical of 5 year old camera phones.
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BOM Price is ~340. So from that POV, yes. If I could score a XOOM tablet for less that 400, I'd go that route. There's also option C, you and I can go to HP and light that bitch on fire.
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Two huge reasons why other tablets are priced the same:
1) They think to compete with Apple, you need to price the same as Apple. Microsoft learned the hard way, and now these guys will as well. Apple has such an entrenched user base that you have to undercut them even with the same or better hardware/experience. This is marketing fail.
2) Economies of scale. Apple has the manufacturing corner almost all locked up, especially with displays. The other manufacturers are making a conscious decision to try and make a profit on each one sold, because they don't have the ecosystem in place to gain sales afterward like Apple can. This is why most people think the Amazon tablet will come in under Apple, because they can get the revenue on the back end with media sales.
Amazon, in reality, is the only one who will seriously threaten Apple.
1) They think to compete with Apple, you need to price the same as Apple. Microsoft learned the hard way, and now these guys will as well. Apple has such an entrenched user base that you have to undercut them even with the same or better hardware/experience. This is marketing fail.
2) Economies of scale. Apple has the manufacturing corner almost all locked up, especially with displays. The other manufacturers are making a conscious decision to try and make a profit on each one sold, because they don't have the ecosystem in place to gain sales afterward like Apple can. This is why most people think the Amazon tablet will come in under Apple, because they can get the revenue on the back end with media sales.
Amazon, in reality, is the only one who will seriously threaten Apple.
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My phone already has a 4.3" screen so whatever I get needs to be 9 or 10" to make it worth it.
Original HP Firesale Pricing
