MacDailyNews Take: The lower you set the bar, the easier it is to “exceed expectations.”
Dilger continues, “Compared to the average 46,555 iPads Apple sold per day over the last quarter (during constrained supplies), a total run of 9,000 isn’t exactly the kind of demand tablet observers would describe as ‘exceeding expectations,’ instead positioning the Slate PC in the same dismal category of failure trailblazed by Microsoft’s Zune and KIN phone.”
Dilger reports, “On its website, HP euphemistically categorized the tiny production run and its incurring delay by saying, ‘due to extraordinary demand, the HP slate is on backorder. Orders are expected to ship in 6 weeks. Order now to reserve your place in the queue.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
The competition is such a joke.
APPLE OWNS TECH
What a bunch of media bs.
Seems like it’s DOA even though there’s a backorder. I’m embarrassed for HP. Why even bother?? They are ill prepared to compete w Apple .
And all the HP ©ock$ucker Advertisers (uh web mags) are running that headline unchallenged!
Extraordinary Demand indeed!
At dijonaise,
Try Cork Soaker.
The moment I met you I knew you would be a natural cork soaker.
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Nook Color is better for reading than iPad and better for everything else than Kindle. Nook Color is better for $249. Nook Color screen is supposed to be better (less reflective) for reading than iPad thanks to new LG screen with anti-reflection coating. It allows to watch videos, listen to the music, view Office documents and PDF’s. The Nook Color will not run apps straight out of the Android Market, but that does not mean it cannot run them. In fact, they have done a lot of tests on apps from standard Android smartphones and they pretty much run on Nook Color, which has Android 2.1 under the hood. (The Nook native interface and apps are just standard Android application layers.) Barnes & Noble special Nook SDK runs on top of the standard Android one and gives developers access to exclusive extensions and APIs for the Nook and its interface. So porting Android apps is not difficult. B&N says it is more like optimising them for Nook than porting them. If you prefer e-Ink screen, the original Nook is still available from BN.
Nook Color specs:
– $249 with free shipping
– 7 inch Color LG Touchscreen 16 million colors with anti-glare coating 1024 x 600 delivering 169 pixels per inch.
– 8GB built in memory expandable to 32 GB with microSD card.
– Formats supported: EPUB, PDF, XLS, DOC, PPT, PPS, TXT, DOCM, XLSM, PPTM, PPSX, PPSM, DOCX, XLX, PPTX, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, MP3, AAC, MP4.
– Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n), USB port
– OS: Android 2.1
– Processor: TI 800 Mhz ARM Cortex A8-based, 45nm OMAP3621
To be fair, it may be that HP is contractually required to produce some minimum number of Microsoft tablets. So, that’s what they did, in order to prevent Microsoft suing them.
Advertising is all in how you position it.
“100% pure recycled grass for helping plants grow” is still the same old cow manure.
@coolio
I am racing out to buy one right this very moment…you are so convincing
…speaking of bastiche cork soakers
The management at HP is a joke. They first develop the HP Slate, then it is basically killed because they bought Palm. Now, I guess they decided since they already have R&D into the Slate, let’s release it.
In a year, they will release a WebOS Tablet based on Palm tech. So, do they plan to develop an ecosystem that handles both W7 and WebOS? What a frickin joke
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@ KenC
I think you have it just right. This was to full a contract. HP real direction is WebOS. It would not surprise me that all 9000 were bought some company in Redmond, WA.
SIX WEEKS backorder? In that time frame HP could order the parts, put em together and ship. Sounds like they really did just build some and then completely stop production.
Thats pathetic. You can spin the words all you want HP, but “exceeding expectations” is really stupid. You should state, “exceeding our lowest bottom barrel expectations”. “We hope to sell a dozen, but demand for two dozen exceeded out expectations”. Try that next time. LOL
Thanks, coolio. I appreciate the information.
If I decide to take a look at ebook readers rather than the all-purpose iPad, then I will give the Nook a look. It certainly sounds like a fine competitor to the Kindle. But the Nook being “better for everything else than the Kindle” is not an overwhelming endorsement from my viewpoint. I still believe that the iPad offers far more overall value for my family.
HP Slate sales “exceeding expectations” like “jobs saved or created.” LOL
I’m waiting for iPad 2 to be released so I will buy one. Also will buy after Christmas, iPhone for Verizon and a MacBook Air. Hope iPad 2 has more flash memory, 128 gb to 256 gb and sd card slot.
@coolio
“The Nook Color will not run apps straight out of the Android Market, but that does not mean it cannot run them. In fact, they have done a lot of tests on apps from standard Android smartphones and they pretty much run on Nook Color, which has Android 2.1 under the hood. …So porting Android apps is not difficult. B&N says it is more like optimising them for Nook than porting them.”
That sounds so wonderful. Who doesn’t want devices that “pretty much” run their apps after doing some workaround to get them on the device?!?! That app, I’m sure, will also “pretty much” be optimized for the device. What a wonderful world it is.
Seriously, if you’re going to talk up a device like a shill, at least use certainty when describing the positive attributes. When an evangelist, who should be maximally optimistic about their subject, uses a phrase like “pretty much”, it means “does not” to every one else. So, you basically told us that the Nook color is a turd that does not work. At all. BTW, I know everyone else knows that, but Coolio apparently needed this spelled out.
@coolio
You had me at PDF, I passed out at microSD. I’m buying one. My wife took my iPad away, so I deserve this. I was totally unaware of the Nook.
Just using amazons playbook. Up to now, we do not have hard numbers from amazon regarding their ereader. Someone should come out with news that amazon only sold 50k units to force them to rebut with hard numbers.
… HP has an internal conflict going and we will soon hear someone was let go over this issue. The number built was likely a mistake of some order … someone mis-spoke a -0-? Someone who didn’t know there are more than 6k hard-core MSFT sheep out there who would buy the Windows tablet – any Windows tablet – rather than an iPad. Out of spite.
I should also point out that just because the Slate isn’t as sweet as an iPod doesn’t mean that it truly sux. Just that many people would not be satisfied and would much prefer the missing features.
I was about to post something snarky — about restaurants that set up a doorman and hire people to create a line just to make it seem like it’s a happening place — when I realized the SOLE source for this information is an Apple fan site.
Before we bash HP too merrily, let’s wait to see if there’s some sort of confirmation. After all, this is MDN and not FOX News or Breitbart.
A whole 9,000 units? That may be taken for success at HP, but for Apple that’s just a “rounding error”.
I’ve got a Dell Streak (bad breakfast) so I’m promptly taking my pants to the launderette.
When a company needs to feed off the lack of knowledge of potential buyers to capture a sale…..you have to know that their future is very dim…as it should be…