HP Tablet, Tim's Finger Not Included?

A bad cause seldom  fails to betray itself.
James Madison, The Federalist, No. 41

RE: Watch and Tell

Hewlett-Packard is (was?) a great American company. I have been using their products for over thirty years. I still have an HP-11C and an HP-12C always very near by. As a matter of fact you'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hand. I remember the first advanced calculators they brought out and how popular they were. I remember using the HP-48 with the slip in cards. Back then all HP calculators had the RPN (Reverse Polish Notation), you had to be smarter than a skidmark to use them. And in college and in the field I never tired of the look on the competitions face when you whipped out you HP and utterly ripped off the answer before the other turkey even hit the On switch!  That is the HP legend.

Well fast forward to today. On Saturday February 19, 2011, while watching the BBC show Click I witnessed great damage to the HP Brand. The host was talking on the latest tablets coming to market at some trade show. (eWeekEurope?) He went through a whole bunch of the other brands and then at the end, got to

the latest HP Tablet. But when he went to demonstrate it, he wasn't allowed to touch it! That was done by Tim's finger! No I am not making this up! So the presenter talked through the features and Tim's finger did the actions, so that the presenter wouldn't "break it!".   (First thought; How shakey is webOS?)

HP-Legend Gear.

How much shareholder equity just evaporated from this screw-up? What fat little shit with a MBA in marketing and I'll bet the grotty little "american goatee", even allowed this unready product to be seen at this show? All that the whole exercise proved is that Google Chrome, and most everybody else, totally has your ragged butts DOMINATED!

HP-48GX

Breathe deeply, don't get angry. You will surely frighten someone, probably the little jacky fat shit with the MBA in marketing, that is surely going to go on and totally destroy Hewlett-Packard.....At this point the story of Hewlett and Packard starting in the garage...is met by startled faces, the gibberish of an old man. What Company as large as HP ever started in a garage? And Jesus reached for his Ibogaine.

Tim's(?) fingers demonstrating some new HP tablet running the webOS; DON'T TOUCH IT!!!