HP ditching tablets and phones, talks about reducing or stopping PCs too

[Eudimorphodon]

If I'd seen one (without going out of my way for it) for the $99 price I probably would of bought it, but only because at that cheap I'd be willing to take a chance on waiting for an Android distribution to show up for it. At that price it'd be a huge bargain compared to, say, hacking a color Nook at $249. So far as I know the basic hardware warranty still applied to the discount TouchPads, so who cares beyond that? It's not like anyone fixes out-of-warranty $99 electronics anymore.

Undoubtedly I'd play with WebOS in the meantime but as soon as an alternative came along... *ZAP*.

 

[barythrin]

True, there would be charm in dual-booting it to a nix distribution assuming support for a virtual keyboard, etc was available. Actually anything that can run a standard PC OS would be an improvement.

 

[GADFRAN]

And look where Apple and Microsoft are today ! What a turbulent industry. What will the next surprse be ?

Frank

 

[barythrin]

And look where Apple and Microsoft are today ! What a turbulent industry. What will the next surprse be ?

Frank

heheh.. Commodore OS and the atom based c64 case mods ;-)