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The dust hadn’t even started to settle on the announcements when the whole question of ‘what to do with the inventory?’ arose. Very few inside of HP knew what was happening, so they couldn’t deal with the crush of information-seeking journalists.

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No one expected the announcement that they were terminating the webOS operation and looking to spin off the entire PC line. After the big weekend discount and immediate price drop, tech sites were already watching HP closely as they went into their quarterly announcement. Three Time Losers: For killing off an entire product line in such an inept way.Pretty much every site reviewed the TouchPad during that time, and thousands of ‘early adopters’ got hands-on with it at a Best Buy or wherever … and all of the experiences were ‘meh’ – even from folks like myself who were webOS fans. Sounds great, and could have been a fantastic splash – except for that first couple of weeks.

ANYWAY YOU SLICE IT WE ARE THANKFUL FOR YOU UPDATE

Then an update arrived that fixed MANY of the issues of the initial software release.

Within a few weeks of initial launch, HP started calling July 1st a ‘soft launch’, and were starting to market the TouchPad with celebrity commercials and so on.

Two Time Losers: Launching a half-baked system on July 1st with virtually no notice.

The entire webOS family was ill-released, underperforming … and it seemed that HP/Palm just never listened. None of the hardware was very competitive – EVERY review says ‘could have been better with better hardware’. Then the TouchPad staggered out, and the Pre 3 was coming to Europe just over the last few weeks. The Veer dropped in mid-May with little fanfare – and a rather unimpressive strategy of leading with the weakest part of a line-up without a definite date for the flagship system. And the launch of the Pre 2 was scattered – but it looked great compared to 2011! This year HP announced the TouchPad, Pre3 and Veer in February with an ‘early summer’ release. After they were bought by HP, there seemed to be little coherent progress – the Pre 2 was ‘better’ hardware, but really just what the original Pre should have been.

The company did a good job moving to Verizon in terms of the launch – but only added more memory without fixing the speed or battery complaints. When the original Pre and Pixi launched, the main chorus of opinion was ‘great OS, weak-sauce hardware’. One Time Losers: A consistent failure to learn – in terms of launches and hardware.