September 1, according to foreign media reports, the world's largest PC maker Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday by the reduction in selling prices drive the market demands, the company will make the last batch of tablet TouchPad.
HP spokesman Mark Budgell in this week's official blog that, "Since we announced the price cut since the TouchPad, TouchPad inquire about the number is growing, and the product inventory has been sold out, we also will provide limited products, these products will be listed in the next few weeks. "
HP previously announced plans to stop production WebOS products, which will include the TouchPad, and a series of smart phones. Subsequently, HP will TouchPad price down to $ 99, far below the original $ 499 price of the product. As the price dropped substantially, making a more market-leading TouchPad Apple iPad has a clear price advantage, so many consumers to purchase this product. According to HP's plan, will be the last batch of TouchPad as of October 31 in the fourth quarter of the market.
Since the announcement of price cuts has been consulting for the product on a single volume and stock plummeting stock surprisingly, this is amazing market response. Bajie Er said: "We decided to reproduce the last batch of TouchPad, in order to meet market demand, we will not know exactly when to market, and how many will be produced, we can not promise to provide enough to meet the Tablet PC the needs of every consumer, but we know, need to wait at least several weeks. "
TouchPad does not mean that the last batch of production changed the WebOS HP equipment plan. HP had previously announced that it will stop its WebOS mobile operating system based on smart phones and tablet PCs, and consider giving up the PC market. HP's $ 1.2 billion last year, the acquisition of smartphone maker Palm, and get a WebOS operating system. HP's senior vice president Stephen DeWitt had previously said, HP plans to continue to provide technical support for the WebOS and continue to update the system. He said HP is considering cooperation with a number of equipment manufacturers, or to provide authorization, so that others can use the device in the system.
HP's decision to resume production of the TouchPad analysts perplexed. Entry-level manufacturing cost of the TouchPad is $ 296, if the price is only $ 99, meaning a loss of $ 197 per TouchPad. Investment institutions Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu (Shaw Wu) that, like a temporary resumption of production TouchPad not well thought out decision. The analysts believe that, "Hewlett-Packard in the past there had been many times reckless move, the move will allow users and application developers confused."
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