HP Reportedly Cancels Plans for Windows 7 Tablet

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 2, 2010 @02:26AM from the changing-horses-in-the-middle-of-a-stream dept.

A recent post up at TechCrunch claims that HP's "Slate" tablet has been canceled. Officials details for the tablet were limited, though a leaked internal presentation indicated it had an 8.9" screen, a 1.6GHz Atom processor, and ran on Windows 7. Some are now speculating that HP may experiment with porting WebOS to a similar device. Quoting: "Will WebOS emerge as a successful operating system for tablet devices? That seems very unlikely given the dominance of the closed Apple OS and the likely success of the open Android and Chrome operating systems from Google. To get traction from third-party developers with WebOS, HP will need to sell a lot of units. And it's not clear what they'd gain from all that effort, anyway. HP knows how to build and sell hardware, not operating systems."

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Re:Who writes this crap? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-02 04:35 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This one of the reasons I was leery of the slate.
Atom processor...Windows 7
It was doomed from the start. This is a new era. If you're not bringing arm and from the ground up touch oriented OS's of which Win7 is not, you may as well forget it. The iPad will eat you for lunch.
Thankfully, somebody at HP figured that out before they lost a lot of money.