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 Originally Posted by CGK
But they didn't simply 'step up', Google put money behind the project because they needed a developer handset - which was the Android Developer Phone 1 (which was a unlocked rooted version of the G10) - to attract developers.
The rest of your post is about a fire-sale situation - not a particularly attractive prospect for anyone that HP wants to attract - "hey guys, get into this and you too can take a two billion hit!"), HP has to convince people they can sell full-price tablets not EOL devices to cheapskates like me.
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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