So this is a New York Times article on the newly launched HP TouchPad that also got picked in a few Indian publications in print, namely, The Economic Times and Financial Express. There couldn’t have been a worse article for a product [newly launched or old] and in a publication like NYT that gets picked up internationally! I just had to share this. Excerpts from the article are as follows:
· The article starts with this – “Did you read the headlines? There was a big earthquake in Haiti. Some men were rescued from a mine in Chile. Oh, and apparently there was a gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. What's that you say? This all sounds like last year's news? Well, don't tell that to Hewlett-Packard. They just introduced a groundbreaking new product: a tablet with a touch screen!”
· “…of course, that there aren't many apps for it yet…. But some pretty popular apps are among the missing. No IMDB. No Pocket God. No Google apps like Google Mobile, Google Earth or Google Voice”.
· “From a hardware-checklist perspective, the TouchPad doesn't get off to a good start.”
· “It has Wi-Fi, but can't get online over the cellphone network. It supposedly has a blazing-fast chip inside, but you wouldn't know it. When you rotate the screen, it takes the screen two seconds to match - an eternity in tablet time. Apps can take a long time to open; the built-in chat app, for example, takes seven seconds to appear. Animations are sometimes jerky, reactions to your finger swipes sometimes uncertain. And despite being thicker, the TouchPad's battery life lasts only about eight hours on a charge”
· “In this 1.0 incarnation, the TouchPad doesn’t come close to being as complete or mature as the iPad or the best Android tablets; you’d be shortchanging yourself by buying one right now…”
Please read the complete article here:
There were of coarse some good comments as well, but the bad ones were sharp enough to pinch the air out of them. Now after reading this article, how many of you would want to but an HP TouchPad!
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