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The $99 TouchPad Sale Overwhelms Ebay
- mrmekon 15y agoI tried to sign up for the $150 TouchPad developer deal a few days before they stopped accepting submissions, but they never even responded.
- ra 15y agoAnd that sums up HP and this whole fiasco, exactly.
- malkia 15y agoSame here, it was through some channel called ViennaChannels.com [Sales-Focused Demo Programs for Mobile Device Manufacturers & Carriers] I signed up, and was later told that they were out of devices, but later I got one (last one according to them). I see that the ebay.com's site the $149 one is still for sale (the one I got). I was able to cross-compile and run luajit on it, and creatonix (Tim Caswell) got even more stuff (but haven't tried it yet). It looks like there is a whole "homebrew" society distributing lots of open source packages. It's called Preware.
- ryfm 15y agogot one, 16gb.
- hendrix 15y agogive it 3-6 months and the current crop of android tablets will be outdated, and available for peanuts.
- veeti 15y agoA nice trick was that you could get one from ebay.ca or ebay.co.uk, since most people were hammering .com's servers.
- mcarrano 15y agoI attempted to get one but had no luck. I didn't even think of using ebay.ca like the commenter veeti mentioned.
- rsanchez1 15y agoIt truly boggles the mind that this tablet saw little interest at $500, $400, or even $300 (I finally got it when it was on sale for $300 at Staples), but bring it down to $100 and it sells out at iPhone/iPad speed. Having an open-source webOS is great and all, but this shows just how mistaken Leo Apothecker was when he unceremoniously dropped webOS.