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HP’s TouchPad Is The #2 Best Selling Tablet This Year

[Ars:][link]

>HP’s TouchPad was the most popular non-iPad tablet in the first ten months of this year, according to a new study from the NPD Group. The TouchPad has the second-largest tablet market share with 204,000 units sold (17 percent of the market), trailed by Samsung at 192,000 units.

It’s a real shame that HP was/is too short-sighted to see value where it exists outside of dull logistics and consulting.

[link]: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/tablet-wars-second-place-goes-to-hp.ars “Tablet wars: second place goes to… HP?”

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All This And Less

[Engadget on the $499 Android-powered “Edge” tablet][link]:

>Yes, the Edge is a combination e-reader and a Android tablet — it just doesn’t quite work well as either. For $499 there are just too many issues with it, including its chunky body, skimpy e-book selection, frustrating touchscreen, poor battery life and lack of Android apps.

I have little doubt there is a market out there for people who still hate Apple so much they’ll drop $499 on an utterly inferior product, but I also don’t think it’s a big enough market to run a company on.

[link]: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/entourage-edge-review/ “Entourage Edge review — Engadget”

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Bad JooJoo

Sounds like a racial epithet in multiple ways, birthed from a massive controversy on one of the most hated/read tech blogs on the planet, costing $500 with unproven software and hardware from a company nobody’d ever heard of until Michael Arrington started yelling “rip off”.

[Good luck, I guess.][link]

[link]: http://gizmodo.com/5420696/fusion-garages-crunchpad-unveiling-liveblog “Fusion Garage’s Joojoo (AKA Crunchpad) Unveiling Liveblog – Crunchpad liveblog – Gizmodo”