14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that the leading spot on the tablet market is something lackluster for a certain leading PC maker, according to a report saying that the TouchPad will more or less be in a league of its own.
HP's TouchPad is one of the tablets that has been getting a large chunk of attention from both prospective customers and the market as a whole.
Among other things, it was recently revealed that the product would cost $599, although there is nothing to guarantee that price is final.
Either way, the product is bound to cause some ripples, maybe more than the other slates, running Android, because it has a different OS, webOS as it were.
It is now reported that HP itself believes that this device will stay in a category of its own, that being “better than number one.”
"In the PC world, with fewer ways of differentiating HP’s products from our competitors, we became number one; in the tablet world we’re going to become better than number one. We call it number one plus," said HP's European Head Eric Cador.
"Only one company plays in both the consumer and business and world. We tend to talk about technologies. But the way the user is going to look at tablets means it’s about experience. The way the corporate is going to look at it is to say that its employees, who are also consumers, have got to like it and it’s got to be secure. We’re going to deliver that. Beyond that, it’s about marketing and branding."
In other words, since it is the greatest supplier of personal computers on the worldwide market, HP intends to become the leading figure on the slate segment as well.
Of course, this means it will have to actually not only match, but surpass, and by a great deal even, Apple, whose iPad has been selling massively since it debuted.
The former will have to get developers to make apps for webOS, although HP did say at one point that existing ones can be easily adapted for the operating system.