After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP(blog.palm.com) |
After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP(blog.palm.com) |
I kinda hope it's all marketing hype. But now I want decent, functioning apps for this thing.
I created a legit WebOS app for myself in about 30 minutes. The development of these apps are unbelievably quick since it's just HTML/CSS/JS.
Your entire dev environment is a text editor, a WebKit browser and the inspection pane - the same one built into Chrome/Safari/Whathaveyou.
It'd be a shame to see WebOS completely die off.
If it was after, what made you not develop any apps when the platform was viable?
This would be a great postmortem question for the HP team - if they had such a compelling development platform, why didn't anyone want to make the effort before they killed the entire thing?
The only reason I didn't create one before was because I didn't think the platform had enough users to make the ROI on learning how to program for WebOS worth it.
I looked for one in local stores and they all told me that eBay hustlers had bought them very quickly after the price drop. Haven't looked on eBay but if true then it's not necessarily the nerds that got them, that could do something useful with them.
Good for Palm.
Personally I planned on making zero webOS app purchases in anticipation of installing Android. But now that my CC is on file, I'll probably have Angry Birds on here by the end of the month. :p
The codes are invalid, it seems that, according to the last sentence, the inventory has run out. Why HP, why?
sent from HP Touchpad
All Pre 3 inventory in Europe will get sold the same way.
ie. Since it's so easy to develop for, you will spend very little time/effort/money to learn to develop vs the iphone (which involves apis, objective c, etc) or vs the android (which involves java, etc) - and so it's ok that the market is small, because you can sell less copies to recoup the investment outlay (which was smaller to begin with because of the ease of development).
Does that change the value proposition of the touchpad?
If it does, then this points to a marketing failure on HP's part - they had a perfectly fine product - just needed to get past the initial "knowledge gap" when no one knows anything about the product.