http://m.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/tablet-dilemma/
"The real foundation, though, is both companies' success in selling digital media and media digitally: music, movies and apps for Apple, books and magazines (and in an earlier time, CDs and DVDs) for Barnes & Noble. Apple and Barnes & Noble were both able to create devices that were first and foremost stores that you carry around with you.
The store ensures that the customer continues to engage and invest in the device after its sale, and that the engagement and investment continue to profit the company who made the device and administer the store. Size and price are fundamentally secondary to the device's continued retail potential.
HP could not play this game, at any price or in any form factor. But if not HP, who? "
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