HP webOS-based TouchPad Enters the Crowded Tablet Market on July 1

The tablet computer market was very simple during the past decade. There was Microsoft’s Tablet PC Edition (later more or less merged into Windows Vista) that was purchased by narrow vertical markets. It remained simple after Apple released the iPad in 2010 too. Windows based tablets remained in their niches and the iPad dominated.

We are now seeing something we haven’t seen since the 1980s: A relatively large number of distinct and mostly incompatible platforms.