HP's Stephen DeWitt at the Engadget Show has made an official announcement:
July 17th is the Official retail launch where you will see promotions, bundles and advertising of webOS products and HP´s PCs, as well.
What can we expect for the 17th?
That's our official retail launch date. What you're gonna see is all of the major retailers will have their advertising and their promotions. This weekend is really the beginning of the month-long back to school season. We very consciously picked this as a launch date. Look for major promotional activities, broadly. Not only across all of our webOS devices, but across our PC products as well. Look for a lot of in-store experiences: merchandising, labor, promotions, bundles -- all sorts of things will kick off on the 17th.
Source: Engadget
So what was the July 1 launch date then?
ReplyDeleteA soft launch - sure - but why not start with a hard launch from the get-go?
Yeah, I would agree that a hard launch from the get-go would be way more impressive, and create more of a buzz, but oh well.
ReplyDeleteBecause they already said July 1st and they didn't want to go back on it. So they just put it out quietly to satisfy the fans who are paying attention and put some buzz out there. Then the really launch is later.
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