How does that work? Does it launch the app to play flash clips? What about websites with embedded flash such as menus? That's the only downer on the iPhone/iPad is when a site won't load because the whole front page is flash. I don't really seem to have that problem much, but it sucks when I do.
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I have one and I agree. I may be getting an Ipadge2 from work for being so awesome as well. Now I can set them up just like a laptop! iPad jenga!
I downloaded the Wired free issue (same for the Daily, Economist, etc.) but haven't bought anything.
more shady business techniques by a shady company. HP will be biting the bullet and offering price protection to BB so they dont have to take back all those units. what BB is doing is illegal, but HP cant afford to lose a customer like them so they are going to take it in the ass and sell it to them at a cheaper price.
HP's mistake was not launching the pre3 simultaneously with the touchpad, since their native interactivity was one of the platforms most unique features.more shady business techniques by a shady company. HP will be biting the bullet and offering price protection to BB so they dont have to take back all those units. what BB is doing is illegal, but HP cant afford to lose a customer like them so they are going to take it in the ass and sell it to them at a cheaper price.
stay classy BB
Ouch. Gonna need some lube for that.
their cell phone wouldnt have made a difference w/ where BB stands. its just BB's way of not trying to push the HP products and solely focus on the product that has the market cornered.
I bet the above report is using shipped figures, not sales to end-users. One need only look at the posts above yours to see why those former figures are crap.
that worked so sell for H.H. Gregg.
Gartner provides the real figures, but I haven't checked for tablets. Apple loves to use shipped unit figures to hype themselves up:
Fry's specials are always lower than everyone else, even the online resellers. Anything is better than BB.that worked so sell for H.H. Gregg.
the east coast market is the toughest in the country when it comes to CE....particularly the NYC metro market. over expansion in this market is a death note now. look at 6th Ave
6th Ave had the NYC market cornered with retail store prices which carried over to their site...before they over expanded and started headed down the toilet.
i know that asus's sales of the transformer are doing really well; for a while they couldn't keep up with demand (and that's shipping 3-4 hundred thousand units per month). Don't know the numbers for the current galaxy tab, what with all the sales blocks, but the OG galaxy tab sold over a million units too (and thats to end users, not units shipped, and that number is as of dec 2010).
people think they don't want tablets. i've let a number of people try mine who had no interest whatsoever in a tablet, and just using it changed there minds.
yea, i was gonna say, apple is guilty of doing the same thing.
We did this at McAfee and got hammered for it. Called it "stuffing the sales channel" where we shipped product to retailers, called it sales and didn't report returns or unsold product. They did this for a year trying to build up to a pre IPO release before they got busted. When nobody got a raise because the stock price for Network Associates (parent company then) nose dived from $35 a share to about $6, I quit.more shady business techniques by a shady company. HP will be biting the bullet and offering price protection to BB so they dont have to take back all those units. what BB is doing is illegal, but HP cant afford to lose a customer like them so they are going to take it in the ass and sell it to them at a cheaper price.
stay classy BB
in this case i doubt it was "stuffing the sales channel" so much as it was "over-forecasting sales"
correct. BB and HP anticipated this item to be "hot" and it obviously bombed with their extremely high sales forecast. now BB doesnt want to be "stuck" with all these extra units since at the going rate, they'll still have by the year 2050. HP would be stupid to take back all those units, so theyll more than likely be a price reduction at the expense of HP (maybe BB too.) theyll call it "advertising" funds internally but the money will be pushed towards reducing the price of the tablet.
it also gets back to the point that failing to launch the touchpad side by side with the pre3 was a HUGE blunder.
I think a bigger blunder was trying to make their own OS or whatever rather than just using android.
i've had a fair amount of time hands on with webos, and honestly its a better OS than both android and iOS. Palm made some serious blunders with the pre though. first gen had mediocre build quality and under powered hardware. second gen was an improvement on both aspects, but honestly it was what the first gen should have been, especially considering the hardware specs for the phones on the market at the time. From what i've read, it sounds like HP has made the same mistakes too, the hardware is underpowered to really drive the OS as smoothly as its capable of.I think a bigger blunder was trying to make their own OS or whatever rather than just using android.
...maybe for their next trick they can release a bunch of PCs with a new OS to compete with microsoft and apple.
Longer != better
absolutely agree, but they made the same mistake as microsoft - waiting too long to revamp their software to compete with google and apple (remember back when your only choices for smartphones were rim, winmo, or palm? seems like ancient history now). As a result, they failed to gain a foothold market share for the current smartphone explosion.
