Large amounts of unintended irony in this piece featuring tablet advice from Arrington (red flag) that amounts to "HP should sell large numbers of hardware for

Large amounts of unintended irony in this piece featuring tablet advice from Arrington (red flag) that amounts to "HP should sell large numbers of hardware for low margin". You mean, just like the PC business they're trying to exit? And the console business that can't shoot straight because the era of $60 apps is fading fast? Because you know, Best Buy is super excited to buy tablets from HP for just under $200 and retail them for $200 while being shut out of the app/ad/bandwidth/content ecosystem. To make an ecosystem only strategy work today I think you need to have your own distribution network and HP isn't really in a position to burn bridges with Best Buy over the rounding error that is their tablet business.