HP trying to jump back into the tablet business would be like Ross Perot trying to jump back into the 1992 Presidential election. Once you surrender once, you lose whatever momentum you have, and entering the fray again is met with skepticism and ridicule.

The HP TouchPad wasn't selling well in the first place. It wasn't bad enough to warrant pulling the plug so abruptly and prematurely, but HP can't continue selling tablets at $99 indefinitely, and there is no reason to believe that the TouchPad will fare any better at $399 next month than it did last month.

That said, when the new batch of TouchPads hits the street, I will still do my best to get my hands on one. I have an iPad and an iPad 2, and I was never really interested in the TouchPad, but for .