“Apple had a splashy week and it didn’t even announce new gizmos,” Scott Martin reports for USA Today.
“That came courtesy of Google’s Motorola Mobility deal and Hewlett-Packard’s lightning-fast exit from the tablet market — both seen as nods to Apple’s success,” Martin reports.
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“Google’s $12.5 billion bid Monday for Motorola Mobility points to how the search king is trying to ape Apple’s approach to tight control over hardware and software design, say analysts,” Martin reports. “Then came Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad shutdown Thursday. That came in less than two months on the market with hugely disappointing sales in the face of Apple’s fast-selling iPad.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mike D” for the heads up.]
The Playbook tablet from RIM is still around for market share laughs but the real fun comes when Microsoft is humbled by minuscule Windows 8 tablet sales next year, assuming there are any PC manufacturers left to make them. Heh.
Nokia’s gonna make some tablets, i guess.
Nokia, the new MS bitch. Soon they will make keyboards and mice as well.
The times they are a changing.
Its a shame, I liked Nokia. But this is what happens when you get caught flat footed.
Nokia will prolly end up selling it’s name to various OEM factories in China and you will see cheapo crappy stuff with Nokia brand being sold at drugstores like CVS or Walgreens. Like what u see with GE branding.
You can’t imagine how badly the Wintards want the Windows 8 tablet to succeed and put iPad sales at a standstill. Unbelievable. The Wintards truly believe that the Windows 8 tablet will do EVERYTHING better than the iPad. It will have support for EVERYTHING you can name. Optical drives, Blu-ray, full pen-input, a full Windows 8 desktop OS running MS Office, Photoshop and Flash with the greatest of ease. It’s going to do all that and have a battery life of 10 hours all in a case the size and weight of the iPad. And it will cost less than the iPad because it’s so easy to undercut Apple prices. Most iPad rivals can barely run a light-weight mobile OS without problems, but somehow on the first shot Microsoft and some partner is going to figure all this out perfectly and eliminate the consumer’s desire for iPads.
Without biased thinking on my part, I honestly can’t imagine how MS is going to run a full Windows OS without needing extra memory, a larger battery and a larger and heavier case for cooling all that down. Yet the Wintards are sure it can be done and consumers will jump all over it. It’s just too farfetched to me. If it was that easy, why didn’t MS figure it out before with all the opportunities they had in the past.
I say that Windows 8 tablets sit on the shelf providing any company is willing to take the risk of selling them as a direct competitor to iPads.
Yeah, you’re right-on. Plus, Win8 adds the extra weight of their new HTML5 interface. Although, that probably amounts to just having an instance of IE open all the time.
I hope that, someday, MS just starts working with others rather than trying to compete with them using inferior products. They can be what Google should’ve been.
When I saw that hp was discounting the touchpad to $99 yesterday.. I did almost buy one.
I was able to actually play with the demo model at walmart, they had 1 16gb left.
Maybe it was the demo model, but it was laggy and totally unresponsive at times. I opened the web browser, nothing. I figured maybe no wifi, so I pulled up the task manager and switched to the calendar… Or tried to anyway.. It just sat there showing all the open apps. I swiped to the social media app.. It opened up. As I was looking at the screen, it switched to the web app and started loading the web site it had loaded.. Then switched to the calendar…. I didn’t touch anything, it was just taking 10-15 seconds to respond to my inputs.
I was tempted to pick one up for just a Internet browser, now I see why hp decided to dump it.
Apple will continue to take victory laps.. And all they have to do is let the competition release their products..
Same here. I was about to get one as an extra for when my son has the iPad2 and I need to do a quick lookup or check email. But when I tried it out wow, it was like using a tablet running iOS4 with the guts of the original iPhone in it. Just goes to show, you MUST have full control over your hardware and software to make a truly competing product in the modern post PC era.
I forgot to add, maybe WebOS is like any MS OS I have used. Just needed a restart and it would have been OK for an hour or so. LOL.
That’s what I thought also, Store demo and all. But I just figured I would skip the hassle.
I’ll find a cheap (decent) android tablet for that. Too bad the xoom/galaxy/etc were not $99 lol.
Not going to grab one with the cheap screens though.
The Xoom will be discounted to $100 soon enough when Motorola finds that unsold stocks are backed up from here to Kalamazoo.
HP DID have full control over the hardware and software in the TouchPad.
Whole lot of good it did then, eh?
Not really. From what I hear, the TouchPad was almost done when HP bought Palm. But I mean more in the way of designing chips that are exactly what the OS needs and so on. Not just purchasing and assembling.
Funny with the eh. I never should have used this name in wordpress. I read eh all day long. lol
According to one report last week, HP’s own tests showed WebOS ran faster on a hacked iPad 2 than on its own TouchPad. It did nothing for HP’s morale. Maybe HP should just make a WebOS app for the iPad for $4.99 and be done with it. (Shades of HP’s “NewWave” for Windows 3!)
Guess the TouchPad is this years Augen Gentouch Android pad!
“Google’s $12.5 billion bid Monday for Motorola Mobility points to how the search king is trying to ape Apple’s approach to tight control over hardware and software design…”
Once again, analysts displaying complete ignorance, showing they understand NOTHING. Goolge bought MMI NOT for “tight control over h/w & s/w” because they needed the patents. The LAST thing they want to do is “playforsure” their h/w manufacturers. MMI will likely stay “independent” (that is, they’ll get first crack at new OS features, but that’s probably it). Otherwise, all Google’s other OEMs will disappear (which they may anyway if Apple succeeds in their patent suits).
the patent statement is smokescreen to placate the OEMs in the short term. How could Motorola patents on the radio and baseband modules protect Android OEMs from infringing on Apple IP? Be very skeptical of the official press releases of google and partners.
H-P shut down the TouchPad, because they run a low-margin operation that cannot afford to ride a money losing product for long. The difference with google’s android stuff, as with so many of microsoft’s projects, is they live off their original high-margin products and can let unprofitable lines flounder for years.
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It is a sad day when we loose a major player in the U.S. consumer market such as HP. What we are left with is Dell and a menagerie of Chinese fronted companies. HP employed tens of thousands of U.S. workers. Time for them to worry about where they will go next. Lets not even talk about the billions of HP shareholders money that was squandered on this webOS folly. Do you think Mark Hurd or Jon Rubenstein are worried about this? Absolutely not. They have their signing bonus’, golden parachutes, etc and have taken the money and run. This is a case where performance bonus’, parachutes etc. should be put in a shareholder trust and not be paid until a decade has passed and only after a review to make sure that the bonus’ are actually valid. I would say this should be like SS for the executive to keep them and their buddies from looting the stockholders.