HP sees “overwhelming” demand for cut-price TouchPad

Posted by Robert Dow on August 22nd 2011 | Comments Closed
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A day after announcing plans to ditch its tablet and smart-phone efforts, HP dropped the price of its webOS-powered TouchPad tablet device at the weekend to just US$99.99 and in turn claimed to have witnessed “overwhelming” demand. HP cut the price of its least-expensive TouchPad to just under US$100, from US$499.99.

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Robert Dow is the senior researcher and benchmark analysts at JPR. Afectionetly known by his co-workers as Master Chief he is the COQC (chief of quality control). A former tennis, basketball, and golf star, after a almost fatal accident on the courts where he lost his left leg, he devoted his time to obtaining a degree in history from the University of San Francisco.

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