So, I guess this was the Touchpad’s greatest weekend! When HP announced friday night that they were liquidating the things at $99 a pop, the world went on a WebOS buying frenzy! HP sold out in minutes, and there were lines at every physical shop with stock the following morning. Best Buy was the most interesting case. They spent Saturday refusing to sell the things “as they are no longer supported by the manufacturer” and then promptly sold them on Sunday to those who showed up… just in case. Go figure.
As for me, I tried to snag a couple (one for me and one for Brit) through Walmart as they had good stock, but they told me that they had to be ordered via the web for store pick-up to get the price (though they’d happily sell me one at $399), but when you ordered via the web, they charged your card and then cancelled the order an hour later. Walmart had better fix the charges soon or… there will be words.
Twitter’s been fun to watch. There were two camps. The “I want one crowd” and the “WebOS is dead, why would I want that thing crowd”. I can see the latter groups point, but at $99, even without another app ever being released (and that’s discounting the homebrew preware group) or linux or android ever being able to be installed, it’s an awful nice platform for browsing (with java and flash), email, social networking, Kindle book, epub and pdf reading. It seems a decent package for the price to me…
…but alas. T’was not to be.
(Also, spent so long on panel #2, that I didn’t really leave myself time for the other panels… big picture, Dave… big picture…)
I think the artwork on this one is quite good all around. Yeah, flash is a tad “a week after halloween pumpkin facey” in the last panel, but not enough to be distracting. I think I’m less fond of the use of purple and blue in panels 3-5.
I saw that HP was killing their tablet (and unloading their PC unit to boot…ha, that’s unintentionally funny), but missed that they dropped the price to $100. Might have made a go at one myself. Then again, I hate feeding frenzies…
Thanks… I was actually shooting for simpson-sy in the last panel, but whatever. The purple and blue is just a rip at the equally ugly black and grey of the apple display in every Best Buy store.
As per the Touchpad, I was ready to tell you that you’re out of luck on finding a pad, but they’re going to manufacture a final run, so maybe…