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The TouchPad aftermarket proves nothing about its commercial potential

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A small number of geeks, chasing after even smaller quantities of end-of-lined geek toys, are keeping the price high. That does not mean that the HP Touchpad would have been a commercial success, nor does it mean that the price is reflecting the general feeling of a machine that should still be on sale. Geeks will buy one everything they can get their hands on. Selling a few thousand is easy. Selling a few hundreds of thousands, to get a 0.1% share, that’s hard. And you need far more market share to make a going and profitable concern.

Don’t compare the WebOS tablet reviews to WebOS smartphone reviews

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Jon Rubinstein would like everyone to compare the muted reviews of the WebOS powered HP Touchpad to the muted reviews of Mac OSX – rather than the muted reviews of the WebOS powered Palm Pre. After all wasn’t the Pre going to have a bundle of firmware updates for the bugs they already knew about, more software from mythical developers in their store, and become the darling of the users thank to the multi-tasking?

Let’s leverage a baseball analogy to the HP TouchPad story

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"The industry will ship between 500 million to 600 million PCs next year. What did [the industry] sell in pads, 14 million?" says Phil McKinney, president and CTO of HP’s personal systems group. "Everyone’s trying to make it seem the conclusion has been decided. We’re still in the top of the first inning… I’m not much of a baseball person, but I always say that the first person up at bat can never hit a grand slam." Actually it’s the top of the second innings, and Apple has already went through the nine man batting order, scored eight runs, and