I don't really see this catching on. Most printing is done of things like photos and documents (word docs, slideshows, spreadsheets, and the like), right? As an Android tablet with what will likely be a laptop grade camera (single digit megapixel count), I doubt it will be terribly proficient with either. Who will want to print low quality photos from this thing for $399 when they won't even have tools like Photoshop on board? Plus, if HP is going to cement their own UI layer over Android, they're going to have to make it damn good to justify disabling the default. The whole thing sounds a little newfangled and gimmicky.
That was pretty much the same attitude expressed by people about the Motorcar, Color Television, Personal Computer, PDA, Laptop Computer, Digital Media Player/iPod, Consumer-Level Smartphone, and (even) Apple's iPad, and we all know how those turned out... ;-)
@DaHarder So what you're saying is that this thrown together piece of sh** by HP could be the next best thing since man became aware of his own being?....... Get yo a** out my face!!!!!
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I don't really see this catching on. Most printing is done of things like photos and documents (word docs, slideshows, spreadsheets, and the like), right? As an Android tablet with what will likely be a laptop grade camera (single digit megapixel count), I doubt it will be terribly proficient with either. Who will want to print low quality photos from this thing for $399 when they won't even have tools like Photoshop on board? Plus, if HP is going to cement their own UI layer over Android, they're going to have to make it damn good to justify disabling the default. The whole thing sounds a little newfangled and gimmicky.
@Cfifth
Hmmm? "Newfangled and Gimmcky"
That was pretty much the same attitude expressed by people about the Motorcar, Color Television, Personal Computer, PDA, Laptop Computer, Digital Media Player/iPod, Consumer-Level Smartphone, and (even) Apple's iPad, and we all know how those turned out... ;-)
@DaHarder
So what you're saying is that this thrown together piece of sh** by HP could be the next best thing since man became aware of his own being?.......
Get yo a** out my face!!!!!
@DaHarder
Are you kidding?
@Cfifth
I'm just saying that one should not be so quick to jump to such rash conclusions until the the entire story's been told.
Let the device come out, let the consumer/market decide, and then discuss its impact.