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It's not too surprising. The only source I've seen for $249 is Marco Arment. Many thought the iPad would cost $1000 because of a WSJ article. It ended up costin

It's not too surprising. The only source I've seen for $249 is Marco Arment. Many thought the iPad would cost $1000 because of a WSJ article. It ended up costing half as much. I'm not surprised that both Amazon and Apple would both use the press. >The TouchPad fire sale proved that there are tons of people interested in a tablet but not willing to pay the $4-500 entry price. The $99 Touchpad is half as much as the Fire and is much as the e-ink Kindle. The Touchpad was also sold at a huge loss.

gks 15y ago
I used to like Marco Arment. But he's one of those people that was better left to keep himself quieter. The more out spoken he's gotten the more obnoxious he's gotten. Sometimes it's best to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Or something like that anyway. The more Marco opens his mouth the more of a fool I think he is. I enjoyed Build and Analyze (his podcast at 5by5) in the beginning, but he got to the point where he was just being more and more obnoxious. He's not Gruber, yet he seems to be trying to be Gruber. Ah well, this is just another of his predictions that has gone wrong.
- danilocampos 15y ago
  Thank you for sharing this. I had been feeling similarly for awhile but couldn't really boil down why. His blog went from must-read to unreadable. I wish I could remember which post threw it over the top for me but I had a visceral reaction at one point best summed up as Really? On the Gruber thing, he has written saying that Gruber is his ideal reader, so yo aren't far off the mark. I think that as his traffic, profile and software sales have grown, he has lost his humility, which is a bad thing for writing.
  - gks 15y ago
    That's a pretty good summary I think. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he comes across as an arrogant prick on his podcast and it seems to be boiling over into his blog as well. I just can't enjoy reading or listening to him anymore.
wanorris 15y ago
The TouchPad also sold out as fast as people could find and purchase them, and you could easily turn right around and flip it for more than $200 on Ebay (typical seemed to be between $225 and $240, from what I could tell). That strongly suggests that HP could easily have charged more and still moved all the units they wanted to move -- even for a discontinued product running an obscure OS.

gks 15y ago

I used to like Marco Arment. But he's one of those people that was better left to keep himself quieter. The more out spoken he's gotten the more obnoxious he's gotten. Sometimes it's best to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Or something like that anyway. The more Marco opens his mouth the more of a fool I think he is. I enjoyed Build and Analyze (his podcast at 5by5) in the beginning, but he got to the point where he was just being more and more obnoxious. He's not Gruber, yet he seems to be trying to be Gruber. Ah well, this is just another of his predictions that has gone wrong.

danilocampos 15y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I had been feeling similarly for awhile but couldn't really boil down why. His blog went from must-read to unreadable. I wish I could remember which post threw it over the top for me but I had a visceral reaction at one point best summed up as Really? On the Gruber thing, he has written saying that Gruber is his ideal reader, so yo aren't far off the mark. I think that as his traffic, profile and software sales have grown, he has lost his humility, which is a bad thing for writing.
- gks 15y ago
  That's a pretty good summary I think. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he comes across as an arrogant prick on his podcast and it seems to be boiling over into his blog as well. I just can't enjoy reading or listening to him anymore.

wanorris 15y ago

The TouchPad also sold out as fast as people could find and purchase them, and you could easily turn right around and flip it for more than $200 on Ebay (typical seemed to be between $225 and $240, from what I could tell). That strongly suggests that HP could easily have charged more and still moved all the units they wanted to move -- even for a discontinued product running an obscure OS.