{"id":2962,"date":"2011-08-17T14:52:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2011-08-17T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:52:58","slug":"best-buy-sitting-on-a-pile-of-unsold-hp-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/best-buy-sitting-on-a-pile-of-unsold-hp-tablets\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 “Best Buy Sitting on a Pile of Unsold HP Tablets”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somewebsite<\/a>:<\/p>\n

According to one source who has seen internal\u00a0HP<\/a>\u00a0reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of the units in its inventory.<\/p>\n

A second person who has seen Best Buy\u2019s TouchPad sales figures confirmed the results as \u201cconsistent with what I\u2019ve seen,\u201d and went so far as to say that 25,000 sold might be \u201ccharitable.\u201d This source suggested that the 25,000-unit sales number may not account for units that consumers return to stores for a refund.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is sad. The HP TouchPad is really cool! If the iPad didn’t exist, I’d buy one. I guess as long as the iPad is around, other guys shouldn’t even try? “There is no tablet market, only an iPad market.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somewebsite: According to one source who has seen internal\u00a0HP\u00a0reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-LM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2519,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/06\/09\/the-hp-touchpad-will-be-available-july-1st-for-500\/","url_meta":{"origin":2962,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 “The HP TouchPad Will Be Available July 1st for $500”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Holy Crap. 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