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Fire Sale HP TouchPad: Pros and Cons

22.08.2011
If you're still looking for a at the fire sale price of $99, you still have . But is it worth the effort? After all, HP's decision to puts the platform in jeopardy, so you may be buying a device whose operating system is, at best, in limbo.

Here are some pros and cons to owning an HP TouchPad now:

HP's TouchPad has that trump the iPad and most Android tablets. At $499, those features weren't enough to made the TouchPad worth buying, but a $99 tablet with excellent multitasking, great-sounding audio and Facebook integration is definitely worth considering.

While homebrew developers may continue to squeeze out apps for WebOS, most developers aren't going to waste time on a platform that, for the moment, has no future. Even if HP licenses or sells the software, the WebOS App Catalog is in for another long, sleepy period akin to when Palm sold the OS to HP. That probably means no Netflix, no Shazam, no Skype, no Hulu Plus and no Spotify for the foreseeable future.