Comments on: HP kills off HP TouchPad tablet, leaves mobile WebOS platform in the lurch https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/08/18/hp-kills-hp-touchpad-tablet-leaves/ Making sense of gadgets and technology Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: 5 reasons why the $99 HP TouchPad isn’t necessarily a bargain | here's the thing https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/08/18/hp-kills-hp-touchpad-tablet-leaves/#comment-992 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:24:11 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=2819#comment-992 […] final fire sale of the TouchPad, the WebOS-powered tablet that the legendary computer manufacturer killed off last summer after just a month on the market.That’s the word from TechCrunch, which claims (based on a […]

]]> By: The HP 12c Financial Calculator from 1981: 30 years later, still on sale | here's the thing https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/08/18/hp-kills-hp-touchpad-tablet-leaves/#comment-367 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:38:46 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=2819#comment-367 […] a pretty remarkable statement—especially considering that HP is the very company that just killed off its new TouchPad tablet barely a month after it landed in […]

]]> By: Week in review: Google hearts Motorola, HP spurns WebOS, more glasses-free 3D | here's the thing https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/08/18/hp-kills-hp-touchpad-tablet-leaves/#comment-311 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:39:53 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=2819#comment-311 […] HP kills off HP TouchPad tablet, leaves mobile WebOS platform in the lurch Once upon a time, there was a once-great smartphone company called Palm (remember the Treo?) that had fallen behind the times in the wake of the game-changing iPhone. Palm aimed for the fences with WebOS, a gorgeous touchscreen phone interface that rivaled Apple’s, but the resulting phones didn’t hit a home run with consumers. […]

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