It's funny to me how people are reading this. I was going to challenge your quote from the opposite direction (i.e., as being too weakly stated): I think Amazo

It's funny to me how people are reading this. I was going to challenge your quote from the opposite direction (i.e., as being too weakly stated): I think Amazon's entry into the tablet market proves that HP's exit from it was very much the right call. I thought so before, and it's inescapable now. HP would only have been throwing good money after bad to continue. I like WebOS (I used a Pre for a while) and sure, it would be great if HP could somehow be a significant player in the tablet market. I just don't see how it can happen. HP was late to the party and there's massive competition. The only justification I could see for continuing to sell the TouchPad is if customers (primarily business customers) came to feel that HP's offerings were incomplete without it, and that drove them to other suppliers for desktops and laptops. I suppose it's possible things could get to that state, but I don't see it happening soon. Trendiness aside, I don't see many problems that businesses have that a tablet solves better than a netbook ... as witnessed by the iPads I see people carrying with cases and external keyboards. Edit: clarification.