I don't think it will use your iPhoto library, as you suppose... Maybe your pictures, but it's not integrated with a MAC. At least I couldn't get a MAC API to run on it. Let me know what you're doing.
It shouldn't be that hard. From iPhoto, you can export your entire library into a folder of jpg files which can then be transferred to the Touchpad. You can then transfer the files by putting the Touchpad in USB drive mode.
Just got back from Wal-Mart, they went on sale at 7AM and were sold out in under ten minutes. Darn, the guy inline in front of me got the very last one.
On my way home, I already saw lines of people waiting for Best Buy and Staples to open.
I can think of a lot of things I'd rather have for $100 than an obsolete tablet for which no bug fix, security update, or hardware support of any kind will ever be available.
Couldn't you 'just' put Android on it. It's open, ins't it? What was that line this Google guy twittered? Something like
Just got back from Wal-Mart, they went on sale at 7AM and were sold out in under ten minutes. Darn, the guy inline in front of me got the very last one.
On my way home, I already saw lines of people waiting for Best Buy and Staples to open.
Really?
THe price is indeed cheap but do they know the think has been discontinued and the support will just about be nil?
$100 isn't bad for a web browser and movie player. I'll be getting one for my daughter's birthday if I can find one.
That's not whty.... Probably online stores had 10 pieces on hand if that. Plus you have the people who buy them just so they can auction them off later.
THe price is indeed cheap but do they know the think has been discontinued and the support will just about be nil?
I'm pretty sure they know the terms. Just by looking at them, they were all males, mid thirties and younger, and most of them were using top of the line Android phones as they were waiting in line.
Remember when the video game industry collapsed in 1983/84 when there were too many companies making mediocre game systems and crappy games until it reached a point when many of those companies started going out of business (or just getting out of the gaming biz) and a price war erupted when they started dumping merchandise? Sounds like the Tablet industry in 2011/12 could be very similar to the 1983/84 video game industry.
True but the MP3 player wars was a far closer analogy IMHO. I recall the same Apple hate from those claiming their River or whatever was far better than iPod. They claimed the iPod was over priced and would die as Betamax had (I recall that analogy was used a lot). All the same claims we had with iPhone then iPad. History does seem to keep repeating and so far Apple are batting pretty well
The dark horse in all this to me is the rise of Apple's various MacBooks in the Post PC era. To paraphrase Steve 'we still need some trucks even in an urban society'. I love my iPad but you'll only take my MBP away from my dead fingers!
THe price is indeed cheap but do they know the think has been discontinued and the support will just about be nil?
Considering that it's labeled as 'clearance' and 'closeout' and marked down 80%, I suspect that most people know that.
I know full well what the support will be like - and I'm planning to buy one (if I can find one). Not everyone thinks the same way you do.
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That's not whty.... Probably online stores had 10 pieces on hand if that. Plus you have the people who buy them just so they can auction them off later.
Except that Best Buy doesn't work that way. You can normally check online and reserve one to pick up at the store. It's the same stock that is in the retail store. Yet they're not allowing it.
There are several explanations - I'm guessing that they know that they'll sell them all within minutes, anyway, so there's no point in reserving them online - because not everyone will pick up their reserved unit.
BTW, Best Buy has changed the return policy on the Touchpad. If you bought one in the past 60 days, you can now return it (rather than their normal 14 day policy). That should help with the people who bought one at full price.
Considering that it's labeled as 'clearance' and 'closeout' and marked down 80%, I suspect that most people know that.
I know full well what the support will be like - and I'm planning to buy one (if I can find one). Not everyone thinks the same way you do.
Except that Best Buy doesn't work that way. You can normally check online and reserve one to pick up at the store. It's the same stock that is in the retail store. Yet they're not allowing it.
There are several explanations - I'm guessing that they know that they'll sell them all within minutes, anyway, so there's no point in reserving them online - because not everyone will pick up their reserved unit.
BTW, Best Buy has changed the return policy on the Touchpad. If you bought one in the past 60 days, you can now return it (rather than their normal 14 day policy). That should help with the people who bought one at full price.
That explains the $100 mil write down that HP was talking about.
I wonder if the sales at the new price will be final.
That explains the $100 mil write down that HP was talking about.
Not really. They didn't sell enough at the old price for returns to be a big issue. The write down was because they're going to have to reimburse Best Buy and other retailers for the price drop.
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Originally Posted by Granmastak
I wonder if the sales at the new price will be final.
They're no longer on Best Buy's web site, but I believe that the message this morning said the sales were final.
Geez, from the way people talk about the TouchPad, you'd think that HP kicked your dog or bitch slapped your mom. It's OK, the iPad is still dominating the market... you don't have to piss on HP as it goes down in flames too
So what if there isn't any support. It's $99. At that price, it's an impulse by for anyone that was actually even THINKING about getting a tablet.
The one I got is going to my 62-year-old dad to use as a web tablet around the house. I'm sure he'll love it. Sure beats the hell out of getting him a $500 iPad 2 for his birthday.
I wonder what kind of chilling effect this week's high-profile cataclysm with the Touchpad that HP experienced will have on other non-Apple tablet makers.
It's one thing for one of these other players to be making their attempt at an iPad and to sell it to retailers and hope it works out and maybe have to discontinue it if it doesn't.
It is quite another thing to see what HP experienced with $100 million dollar chargebacks with Best Buy, the humiliation of their brand that comes from 80% discounts a month or so after the release of the product, and the much more profound harbinger of HP's potential exit even from their venerable PC business.
(...and not to mention that the product category for which you are competing and investing hard-earned dollars is now being called "shitter tablet").
Trying to get your own tablet on the market is not fun and games anymore...you can really get hurt very badly if you even try to do so now. How many executives at these other non-Apple tablet makers are going to be willing to stick their necks out to build a tablet now? Suddenly they realize they are swimming in bloody water and they are not the sharks that they thought they were.
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I don't think it will use your iPhoto library, as you suppose... Maybe your pictures, but it's not integrated with a MAC. At least I couldn't get a MAC API to run on it. Let me know what you're doing.
It shouldn't be that hard. From iPhoto, you can export your entire library into a folder of jpg files which can then be transferred to the Touchpad. You can then transfer the files by putting the Touchpad in USB drive mode.
On my way home, I already saw lines of people waiting for Best Buy and Staples to open.
I can think of a lot of things I'd rather have for $100 than an obsolete tablet for which no bug fix, security update, or hardware support of any kind will ever be available.
Couldn't you 'just' put Android on it. It's open, ins't it? What was that line this Google guy twittered? Something like
cd source; make install
Just got back from Wal-Mart, they went on sale at 7AM and were sold out in under ten minutes. Darn, the guy inline in front of me got the very last one.
On my way home, I already saw lines of people waiting for Best Buy and Staples to open.
Really?
THe price is indeed cheap but do they know the think has been discontinued and the support will just about be nil?
That's quite a fire sale.
I'm sure it will sell now, but how funny would it be if they still can't sell through their quantities of touchpads?
Has anyone actually tried to light one yet?
And that's why everyone is sold out......
$100 isn't bad for a web browser and movie player. I'll be getting one for my daughter's birthday if I can find one.
That's not whty.... Probably online stores had 10 pieces on hand if that. Plus you have the people who buy them just so they can auction them off later.
Really?
THe price is indeed cheap but do they know the think has been discontinued and the support will just about be nil?
I'm pretty sure they know the terms. Just by looking at them, they were all males, mid thirties and younger, and most of them were using top of the line Android phones as they were waiting in line.
Has anyone actually tried to light one yet?
LOL. Will it blend?
Remember when the video game industry collapsed in 1983/84 when there were too many companies making mediocre game systems and crappy games until it reached a point when many of those companies started going out of business (or just getting out of the gaming biz) and a price war erupted when they started dumping merchandise? Sounds like the Tablet industry in 2011/12 could be very similar to the 1983/84 video game industry.
True but the MP3 player wars was a far closer analogy IMHO. I recall the same Apple hate from those claiming their River or whatever was far better than iPod. They claimed the iPod was over priced and would die as Betamax had (I recall that analogy was used a lot). All the same claims we had with iPhone then iPad. History does seem to keep repeating and so far Apple are batting pretty well
The dark horse in all this to me is the rise of Apple's various MacBooks in the Post PC era. To paraphrase Steve 'we still need some trucks even in an urban society'. I love my iPad but you'll only take my MBP away from my dead fingers!
Really?
THe price is indeed cheap but do they know the think has been discontinued and the support will just about be nil?
Considering that it's labeled as 'clearance' and 'closeout' and marked down 80%, I suspect that most people know that.
I know full well what the support will be like - and I'm planning to buy one (if I can find one). Not everyone thinks the same way you do.
That's not whty.... Probably online stores had 10 pieces on hand if that. Plus you have the people who buy them just so they can auction them off later.
Except that Best Buy doesn't work that way. You can normally check online and reserve one to pick up at the store. It's the same stock that is in the retail store. Yet they're not allowing it.
There are several explanations - I'm guessing that they know that they'll sell them all within minutes, anyway, so there's no point in reserving them online - because not everyone will pick up their reserved unit.
BTW, Best Buy has changed the return policy on the Touchpad. If you bought one in the past 60 days, you can now return it (rather than their normal 14 day policy). That should help with the people who bought one at full price.
HP has dominant 95% marketshare of the shitter tablet category.
And it is because they make the best shitter tablets.
Best post ever.
Considering that it's labeled as 'clearance' and 'closeout' and marked down 80%, I suspect that most people know that.
I know full well what the support will be like - and I'm planning to buy one (if I can find one). Not everyone thinks the same way you do.
Except that Best Buy doesn't work that way. You can normally check online and reserve one to pick up at the store. It's the same stock that is in the retail store. Yet they're not allowing it.
There are several explanations - I'm guessing that they know that they'll sell them all within minutes, anyway, so there's no point in reserving them online - because not everyone will pick up their reserved unit.
BTW, Best Buy has changed the return policy on the Touchpad. If you bought one in the past 60 days, you can now return it (rather than their normal 14 day policy). That should help with the people who bought one at full price.
That explains the $100 mil write down that HP was talking about.
I wonder if the sales at the new price will be final.
That explains the $100 mil write down that HP was talking about.
Not really. They didn't sell enough at the old price for returns to be a big issue. The write down was because they're going to have to reimburse Best Buy and other retailers for the price drop.
I wonder if the sales at the new price will be final.
They're no longer on Best Buy's web site, but I believe that the message this morning said the sales were final.
So what if there isn't any support. It's $99. At that price, it's an impulse by for anyone that was actually even THINKING about getting a tablet.
The one I got is going to my 62-year-old dad to use as a web tablet around the house. I'm sure he'll love it. Sure beats the hell out of getting him a $500 iPad 2 for his birthday.
That's odd - I just went to Bestbuy.com and the Touchpad is showing as 'sold out online'. I thought they had a quarter million of these lying around?
Maybe they just pulled them offline in advance of the big sale - so they don't have customers upset for paying full price.
They want to get you into their store so that you are tempted to buy more stuff.
Tried best buy, target, amazon etc
Nothing
It's one thing for one of these other players to be making their attempt at an iPad and to sell it to retailers and hope it works out and maybe have to discontinue it if it doesn't.
It is quite another thing to see what HP experienced with $100 million dollar chargebacks with Best Buy, the humiliation of their brand that comes from 80% discounts a month or so after the release of the product, and the much more profound harbinger of HP's potential exit even from their venerable PC business.
(...and not to mention that the product category for which you are competing and investing hard-earned dollars is now being called "shitter tablet").
Trying to get your own tablet on the market is not fun and games anymore...you can really get hurt very badly if you even try to do so now. How many executives at these other non-Apple tablet makers are going to be willing to stick their necks out to build a tablet now? Suddenly they realize they are swimming in bloody water and they are not the sharks that they thought they were.
Stands for: Buy None Get One...
Credit to HP for having the balls to tell it like it is.
The Co-CEOs at RIM must be shitting in their pants right now... all. day. long.... non stop.
[on edit: ... but for whatever reason, RIM was up 3.69% on the TSX and 3.61% on the Naz during the meltdown yesterday]