Touchpad on the HP tablet PC seems to pack a good dose of bravado from a company that had hoped to topple the dominance of Apple iPad.
But in light of recent events, it's just a little sad: "Now comes the fun part," said the simple white text.
In a stunning move late last week, HP said it would set the touchpad and its entire line of smartphones and pathetic after sales customers received poor.
TouchPad, always a dubious record as a budding iPad Slayer, lasted on the market only 49 days.
HP has tried to do the impossible: the units of sale in a market crowded by the IPAD and tablets running the Android operating system by Google. TouchPad uses third WebOS OS.
After leaving HP TouchPad, retailers were left with shelves full of $ 400 paperweight. Many have started selling touchpads for only $ 99, caused a fire sale this weekend that led to something unusual: people lined up to buy the tablet.
The stores are largely depleted. I tore up the touchpad for $ 100 at Best Buy Metro Detroit early on Sunday to seek second stop every morning.
Why? I'm not sure yet. First, I could not resist the temptation of a post-mortem to take on a device that is considered unfit for public consumption:
Limited applications handcuffed touchpad
The TouchPad is rounder and larger than the iPhone, but looks similar.
But it is difficult to find a compelling reason to have paid $ 499, the introductory price.
It weighs a heavy 1.6 pounds - heavier than the original broadcast IPAD almost a year and a half ago.
App Store touchpad is anemic, only a handful of programs built on the tablet. A very limited number of popular titles, like the birds and the Angry Kindle is available, and work well.
There is no rear camera in front, facing forward and low quality of the camera can only be used for video chatting on Skype. Still no image.
TouchPad is, however, the device will be able to surf the Internet and manage email and calendar.
Reports surfaced early last week that Best Buy tried selling the TouchPad after it had sold less than 10% of the equipment he had ordered from HP.
It was simply too expensive for what it was: a Tablet PC computer, which does not have a lot of computers, after all.
What next?
The spectacular failure of TouchPad is sure to escape the illusions of other non-Apple, non-compressed hopes Android.
When HP decided to cut their losses, the focus was on the Research In Motion BlackBerry smartphones, held in difficulty and offers clean compressed, the playbook.
Book game was released this year lukewarm reception, and the customer has not seen significant sales. Many are waiting for your Blackberry is suffering the same fate is the touchpad.
To date, no other tablet computer IPAD matching the characteristics and price.
As the iPod did for MP3 player market, the iPad has nudged all other competitors. Nobody does beth this weekend, however, shows how consumers are hungry for a cheaper alternative for the iPad.
Even then, tens of millions snapped up Apple tablet cost several million others are waiting, $ 100 cash in hand.
HP was the first knowledge to offer a solution.
