The TouchPad, HP's WebOS-based tablet, failed to ignite sales. |
In 2011, the company had to make a hasty and embarrassing exit from the tablet computer market after the dismal showing of its WebOS-based TouchPad tablet. After this, few analysts and observers believed the company would ever try coming up with a consumer-oriented tablet computer again.
HP is hoping its Windows 8-running tablets would do better than the TouchPad did. |
The company, however, has been selling Windows 7-powered tablets to corporate clients in several industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, and hospitality markets. Also, HP, even before the TouchPad fiasco, had been in talks with Microsoft regarding future Windows 8-based tablet computers.
Will the market be more favorable for the Windows 8 tablets from HP than it has ever been for the TouchPad? I guess, we'll find out by the time the holidays shopping season gets here.
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