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WebOS—the short term, instant developer opportunity

Posted by Mitchell Weinstock on August 25th 2011 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, Content Creation
Tags: market mobile hp software tablets apps

With all the discussion swirling around the sell off of the HP Tablet at $99 this week, there is a discussion point that has been overlooked. There is now a brand new business opportunity.Generally it is very hard to get developers to target devices that don’t have a fairly large install base without serious incentives beyond the token free device to work with.Developers now have an instant total available market of 500K units. Normally it would take a company like Motorola Mobility 7-12 months to reach that sell through on a single carrier focused smartphone type device. Since the number of…