The $99 TouchPad Sale Overwhelms Ebay

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by aresant • 15 years ago

24 8 15 years ago

mrmekon• 15 years ago

I tried to sign up for the $150 TouchPad developer deal a few days before they stopped accepting submissions, but they never even responded.

ra• 15 years ago

And that sums up HP and this whole fiasco, exactly.

malkia• 15 years ago

Same here, it was through some channel called ViennaChannels.com [Sales-Focused Demo Programs for Mobile Device Manufacturers & Carriers]

I signed up, and was later told that they were out of devices, but later I got one (last one according to them).

I see that the ebay.com's site the $149 one is still for sale (the one I got).

I was able to cross-compile and run luajit on it, and creatonix (Tim Caswell) got even more stuff (but haven't tried it yet).

It looks like there is a whole "homebrew" society distributing lots of open source packages. It's called Preware.

ryfm• 15 years ago

got one, 16gb.

hendrix• 15 years ago

give it 3-6 months and the current crop of android tablets will be outdated, and available for peanuts.

veeti• 15 years ago

A nice trick was that you could get one from ebay.ca or ebay.co.uk, since most people were hammering .com's servers.

mcarrano• 15 years ago

I attempted to get one but had no luck. I didn't even think of using ebay.ca like the commenter veeti mentioned.

rsanchez1• 15 years ago

It truly boggles the mind that this tablet saw little interest at $500, $400, or even $300 (I finally got it when it was on sale for $300 at Staples), but bring it down to $100 and it sells out at iPhone/iPad speed.

Having an open-source webOS is great and all, but this shows just how mistaken Leo Apothecker was when he unceremoniously dropped webOS.

The $99 TouchPad Sale Overwhelms Ebay

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