OT: HP TouchPads/EBay bids

At the local Best Buy, there's a big sign over one section that used to say COMPUTERS.

Now it says COMPUTERS / TABLETS

Soon it will say TABLETS.

Face it, very few people need to compute. Ken Olsen turned out to be right, after all.

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A group has been set up to port Android to the Touchpad. The project calls their version Touchdroid. See:

If the URL gets mangled try a Google search on the term Touchdroid. You better hurry if you want to buy a touchpad at a $99 price. Most outlets are sold out.

Howard

HP is toast. They spun off Agilent and the semiconductor operation, and called themselves a PC company. Billions for Compac, and now they are getting out of the computer business. A billion or so to buy that new OS, whatever, down the drain. Another billion or two squandered on Itanic. Their tablet was an epic disaster.

What are they going to be, some sort of Oracle wannabee? They almost put themselves out of businness installing Oracle internally!

John

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BTW, Best Buy is out of TouchPads.

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I'll have to wait. Or forget about a TouchPad.

Android is pretty much the only thing I can use due to its Java support. WebOS dropped it a while back. Which killed the possibility of common TouchPad/Android support.

If the Touchdroid manages to get JVM support built for this, I might be interested. But its not worthwhile putting one of these on a shelf and hoping for the support to come along.

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Quit your account :-) In the end there is not much Ebay can do to make you pay. But seriously, you cancel a buy on Ebay. I've cancelled several buys because I bought too many or the seller could not deliver in time (some people put stuff on Ebay just before they go on holiday for two months).

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Nope, a printer cartridge company! That is the one continuing revenue stream, sell the printer at cost (or even below) and know that you'll sell tons of cartridges to the masses. Even with all the refillers, they are still making a killing on these things.

Jon