... Did it without any help from Ruby, DeWitt and Bradley!
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
My HP TouchPad Received an Update Today!...
My HP TouchPad received an update today...
... Did it without any help from Ruby, DeWitt and Bradley!
... Did it without any help from Ruby, DeWitt and Bradley!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
TouchPad OTA Update: MIA or Just SOL?
Now that we're at July 24, deep into the "shortly after" of the HP TouchPad's July 17 official launch and approaching the "by the end of the month" promise from HP, who wants take some action on the proposition that the OTA update will be MIA and we'll be SOL again?
I hate to be cynical and negative-sounding, but after a few decades in the business world, one develops a nose for the "horse hockey" -- borrowing a phrase from Col. Potter of M*A*S*H -- you hear from the Ruby-esque corporate types.
HP's soft launch/hard launch and shortly after/by the end of the month tapdances are the corporate equivalents of "the dog ate my homework". They're not ready. They don't know when they'll be ready... and are just trying to buy themselves some time to cook up the next tapdance.
So, what does this mean to those of us bought the TouchPad for what turned out to be the "on double-secret probation" July 1 soft launch and the "this time its for real, trust us" July 17 hard launch?...
I can faintly hear the Jackie Gleason/Ralph Kramden "Hummada hummada hummada" now from the direction of Palo Alto.
... Or is it, "August 15... Yeah... That's the ticket!" from Jon Lovtiz's liar character?
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -- Lillian Hellman
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. -- Mel Brooks
I hate to be cynical and negative-sounding, but after a few decades in the business world, one develops a nose for the "horse hockey" -- borrowing a phrase from Col. Potter of M*A*S*H -- you hear from the Ruby-esque corporate types.
HP's soft launch/hard launch and shortly after/by the end of the month tapdances are the corporate equivalents of "the dog ate my homework". They're not ready. They don't know when they'll be ready... and are just trying to buy themselves some time to cook up the next tapdance.
So, what does this mean to those of us bought the TouchPad for what turned out to be the "on double-secret probation" July 1 soft launch and the "this time its for real, trust us" July 17 hard launch?...
I can faintly hear the Jackie Gleason/Ralph Kramden "Hummada hummada hummada" now from the direction of Palo Alto.
... Or is it, "August 15... Yeah... That's the ticket!" from Jon Lovtiz's liar character?
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -- Lillian Hellman
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. -- Mel Brooks
Saturday, July 23, 2011
A Bookmark Trap?...
One difference I immediately saw between webOS on the Pre and the HP TouchPad was that "Clear Bookmarks" has been added at the top of the "clear" options list under Preferences for the web browser.
Ouch! That looks like an accident waiting to happen.
I guess a "clear bookmarks" option could come in handy somewhere down the line, but putting it at the top of the list (before Clear History, Clear Cookies and Clear Cache) appears to be putting my hard-compiled list squarely in harm's way. One instinctive/errant/automatic swipe and my work is gone.
Hey, HP, was this one of Ruby's ideas of how to "make things right" for us early Pre users?
Ouch! That looks like an accident waiting to happen.
I guess a "clear bookmarks" option could come in handy somewhere down the line, but putting it at the top of the list (before Clear History, Clear Cookies and Clear Cache) appears to be putting my hard-compiled list squarely in harm's way. One instinctive/errant/automatic swipe and my work is gone.
Hey, HP, was this one of Ruby's ideas of how to "make things right" for us early Pre users?
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Soft Launch???
I just heard that HP called the botched July 1 launch of the TouchPad a "soft launch" and announced that the real launch will be on July 17... Hhhmmm.
We -- the customers -- apparently never knew that Ruby had us on "double-secret probation". We are customers... We couldn't be trusted.
And now that Ruby has been pushed to the side of the road, it sounds like HP is trying to fix the mess... kinda.
Suggestions to Leo and the rest of the gang at HP:
Step 1 - Fess up in a straightforward, honest manner.
Step 2 - Really "make it right". The $50 offer/gambit you recently made to the owners of older Pre models is really nothing. Forcing previously abused customers to buy the more expensive TouchPad model in order to get the abuse "made right" is adding insult to injury. Let your abused customers experience the TouchPad at the level of their choice (16GB or 32GB). That's much closer to "making it right".
Hey, HP you're better than this! (... or at least you used to be.)
We -- the customers -- apparently never knew that Ruby had us on "double-secret probation". We are customers... We couldn't be trusted.
And now that Ruby has been pushed to the side of the road, it sounds like HP is trying to fix the mess... kinda.
Suggestions to Leo and the rest of the gang at HP:
Step 1 - Fess up in a straightforward, honest manner.
Step 2 - Really "make it right". The $50 offer/gambit you recently made to the owners of older Pre models is really nothing. Forcing previously abused customers to buy the more expensive TouchPad model in order to get the abuse "made right" is adding insult to injury. Let your abused customers experience the TouchPad at the level of their choice (16GB or 32GB). That's much closer to "making it right".
Hey, HP you're better than this! (... or at least you used to be.)
TouchPad WebOS Emulator
Many reviewers and bloggers have expressed disappointment with the emulator in the TouchPad for launching older WebOS apps..
I don't find myself in that camp. I'm actually ok with the emulator and find myself going down the path of "the glass is half full" thinking on this one.
Hey, it works and lets you use your older apps.
Count your blessings that Rubenstein semi, partially, somewhat delivered a bit on something... Kinda, maybe, perhaps.
There are more important things that need to be upgraded -- and fast -- on the TouchPad.
I don't find myself in that camp. I'm actually ok with the emulator and find myself going down the path of "the glass is half full" thinking on this one.
Hey, it works and lets you use your older apps.
Count your blessings that Rubenstein semi, partially, somewhat delivered a bit on something... Kinda, maybe, perhaps.
There are more important things that need to be upgraded -- and fast -- on the TouchPad.
Wow!
In my post yesterday morning about the badly unexploited value of the Touchstone charger to HP Palm and how they should make an "addition by subtraction" move in the Palm ranks, I was wishing out loud for the departure of Jon Rubenstein.
Little did I know that several hours later HP would actually be making that move... Or least putting it in motion.
Great news, HP! Now keep things moving in the right direction.
Little did I know that several hours later HP would actually be making that move... Or least putting it in motion.
Great news, HP! Now keep things moving in the right direction.
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