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 Originally Posted by k4ever
HTC, which was a major Windows Mobile hardware maker at the time had to first take a chance on Android. No amount of backing by Google could have forced them to go against Microsoft and the established mind set. They chose to make an Android phone and to take the flack for it.
I don't know if you were here before the fire sale. I don't believe you were, but everything the other poster mentioned was pre-fire sale data. There was some bad reviews at the began by some tech sites (just like everything else non-Apple or Microsoft), but everything up until a few days before Leo made his move were positive. The TouchPad was already being crowned #2. The fire sale just accelerated the process.
You talk a good game about margins on everything else, except when webOS is part of the story. Which Android hardware tablet maker besides Amazon is making money on hardware especially when most of it is sitting on shelves? No one is making Apple type money on their hardware they do sell and even then that profit is offset by the money being lost by the products that aren't in users hands plus the royalities paid to hawks like Microsoft.
With literaly hundreds of hardware makers, especially on the low end driving down profits, all Android devices not subsidized by cell phone providers are commodity items. That means low profit margins. Why not make the same profit margin on the hardware and some additional profits on the software?
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About the TouchPad being number 2 in the market. Didn’t Meg already come out and say that there are 750,000 devices out there?
Meg Whitman and Marc Andreessen on webOS: 'We will use webOS in new hardware... in tablets' | The Verge
Now, it’s debatable if that is all TouchPads or TouchPads and other Pre phones. But, I find it hard to believe that before the fire sale, the Touch Pad was the number 2 device. Let’s assume that HP sold more TouchPads after the fire sale than before the fire sale. Let’s say they sold 400,000. That means that they sold 350,000 before the fire sale. I think that the Android tablets sold more than 350,000 at that point in time before the fire sale to be the number 2 after the iPad.
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