Tablets
HP TouchPad Weekend Debut
02/07/11 17:57
HP finally debuted the TouchPad, their first WebOS tablet, this weekend with what appears to be little fanfare. It would be hard to imagine HP conducting a campaign on the level that Apple did with the iPad 2 (billboards etc.) however they don’t appear to have done a broad launch campaign in the Los Angeles area. Not one to watch broadcast television I haven’t seen the below commercial except on YouTube. A cursory review of the Financial Times revealed no advertising in either the main or business sections. Perhaps HP ran advertisements in other papers but I thought it would be rude to sift through my neighbors Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and New York Times until I was sure they weren’t going to pick them up.
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The Blackberry Playbook Fiasco
08/04/11 15:47
Analysts and industry followers continue to debate whether Research In Motion will recover their once seemingly unassailable position as the de-facto standard for corporate issued mobile devices. Since the iPhone launch in 2007 RIM’s product launches either have been evolutionary or failed to spark a resurgence in popular market demand (Storm, Storm 2, Torch, etc.) even though unit shipments continue to grow globally. RIM continues to report strong sales in developing countries and consumer markets yet it is questionable whether this is sustainable against Android, iOS, and the reinvigorated HP WebOS. Anecdotal evidence also indicates that RIM may be facing corporate defections resulting from poor manufacturing quality, a lacking user experience, and the high levels of overhead required to maintain the Blackberry Enterprise Server. The latter may become moot with the recently announced RIM and Microsoft cloud partnership. Any shift in the status quo also opens the opportunity to evaluate other cloud services and may become a double-edged sword for RIM.
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