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HP registers trademark for PalmPad
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I'm anti-fanboy as they come, but when I read that name, I thought: "Why, HP?" You're just opening yourself up to "copycat" claims.
PalmTab?
Palmlet?
TabPalm?
Palm Slate? (I like this one)
PalmTab?
Palmlet?
TabPalm?
Palm Slate? (I like this one)
Exactly. As soon as I read the name "PalmPad" it just screamed to me that it was an iPad rip-off. I am a great lover of HP products mainly for their originality, but couldn't they come up with something a bit more imaginative than PalmPad?
Okay, the iPad is pushing it. Just because it's apple, people don't care. Now HP is doomed to another product failure... Not that many on this forum care. Also, how can it be the PALMpad if it doesn't exactly fit in someone's palm?
I'm actually kind of curious about this particular device. It'll be interesting to see whether the combined Palm/HP operation is capable of delivering something well-thought-out and functional. This is a lot more interesting than the idea of an HP Slate running Windows, anyway.
One irony here is that, while the PalmPad will almost certainly have little if any impact on the success of the iPad, it may arrive just in time to deflect attention from the expected flood (or should I say dump?) of Windows tablets onto the market. How is any given device going to gain any traction? It'll be like those early years with MP3 players when the question was, Do I want an iPod, or do I want ... one of those other things, whatever they're called.
One irony here is that, while the PalmPad will almost certainly have little if any impact on the success of the iPad, it may arrive just in time to deflect attention from the expected flood (or should I say dump?) of Windows tablets onto the market. How is any given device going to gain any traction? It'll be like those early years with MP3 players when the question was, Do I want an iPod, or do I want ... one of those other things, whatever they're called.
Some of the better Android tablets should be competitors since they're going to be sporting much better specs than the iPad when they're released. The Notion Ink Adam will have a PixelQi display.
I'm sure you're right. Some of these Android tablets should be cool devices, definitely worth checking out. I'm wondering, though, how any of them can attract much attention, since they'll probably all be hitting the market within a few months of one another. It will be pretty easy to get lost in the crowd -- especially for products made by smaller companies with limited advertising budgets.
HP does have an advantage here, being a well-known brand and also a huge company with the finances to heavily promote its products.
Some of the makers of Windows tablets will also be large companies, like Dell. But then again, they're going to be selling a slab running Windows, and I'm kind of skeptical that consumers are going to be very excited about that.
It just seems to me that's what's about to happen is that 15 or 20 or 30 new tablet devices will be clamoring for attention, struggling for name recognition. And on the other side, there will be 10 million iPads already out there in people's hands, with a simple name that everybody knows.
I think HP has acted shrewdly and decisively so far: first by snapping up Palm with its mobile operating system already in place, and then by dropping the albatross of the Windows-based Slate. I still have trouble imagining HP transforming itself into a nimble mobile-device competitor on the field with Apple. But at least they're striking out on their own course.
I can definitely see what you're saying here especially with respect to Android tablets. As far as I know Google has given very little leadership so far as to what an Android tablet should look like, and it seems like manufactures are each making their own decisions. I can see a situation arising where each Android tablet has a slightly different UI and personality and none of them gets the critical mass they need to really be successful.
At least by buying Palm, HP now control an entire platform from the hardware right up to the UI. The next stage is to actually follow through on the promise and get something into people's hands.
We already went through the name arguments when people complained about "iPad".
There are only a few common descriptive names for this type of device:
Tablet = touchscreen with physical keyboard
Slate = touchscreen with no physical keyboard
Pad = originally short for webpad, a browser based device
Book = any of the above, perhaps folding
If you're lazy, you simply take your company name ("Palm") or product ("Windows") or theme ("i") and add it to one of the names. Done.
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There are only a few common descriptive names for this type of device:
Tablet = touchscreen with physical keyboard
Slate = touchscreen with no physical keyboard
Pad = originally short for webpad, a browser based device
Book = any of the above, perhaps folding
If you're lazy, you simply take your company name ("Palm") or product ("Windows") or theme ("i") and add it to one of the names. Done.
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I hope one launches. Competition is always good for the consumer. Plus I wanna see web OS on a tablet. PlamPad sounds good. Does palm always name it's devices with a 'p'
Palm pre
Palm pixi
Palm pre
Palm pixi
At least it's not going to be a pPad.
or not the "HPad"
say, come to think of it, HP could have made sure their product "leads" the iPad in at least one way, by sorting alphabetically higher in any lists... (kinda like HAL vs IBM)