HP acquired Palm to build a tablet based on Palm's OS. HP's twisted concept of what is a tablet may have doomed their development effort. In the most oversimplified form, a tablet is a stripped down netbook with a touchscreen. Some people think a tablet must have cellular broadband service. HP wanted to follow Apple and Googles path of building the tablet based on a smart phone OS platform. That path was needed then for public education, because the public didn't know what to make of the iPad when it was first introduced. Now, the public perception has matured and the minimal form of a tablet is pretty simple. Maybe it can even be built from a camera OS.
The public was originally confused about the netbook concept as well. Now that the netbook market has matured, manufacturers are slapping many different OSes onto netbooks. The public initially proclaimed netbooks useless without a particular kitchen sink that someone personally wanted. History has revealed them as typical moaning geeks and that minimal netbooks are still very marketable and highly capable machines. I suspect the tablet segment will shake out in a similar fashion.
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