HP TouchPad Became Bestseller on Amazon

A few days ago, HP announced the discontinuation of the release of webOS smartphones and TouchPad tablets, after which it began to eliminate inventory in the retail network. In American supermarkets and online stores, the cost of the HP TouchPad 16 GB tablet was set at $ 99. This is a great price for a device that originally cost $ 499, and parts of which are priced at $ 296 .

No wonder that on Sunday, the TouchPad 16GB and 32GB tablets ($ 149) occupied the first two lines of the most popular products on Amazon (in the electronics section), ahead of the iPod player, the Kindle 3G reader and other traditional leaders.

Apparently, people have a very high demand for cheap tablets. They can be used as additional monitors, photo frames, toys for children, Android can be installed there, etc.
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Most online stores have cheap TouchPad stocks running out, but they still remain somewhere . On Amazon, all stocks of cheap tablets were sold out in a matter of hours.

PS Tomorrow (August 23), the sale of tablets will begin in the network of British stores Dixons at a price of 89 pounds for 16 GB and 115 pounds for 32 GB .

PPS Some fantasize what might happen if HP set a price of $ 99 (or even $ 199) from the very first day of sales. Perhaps they could grab a larger market share in a few weeks. True, the sale of software would hardly have paid for such a discount.