But here is my dilemma - Now that the only webOS tablet is selling for so less, won't people get used to this pricing and take it for granted that webOS tablets are damn affordable ? Even if the user base is won, I think it is going to be relatively a small size compared to that of Apple's or Google's.

Will hardware companies risk this negative pricing to make webOS tablets ? Software companies already have two big platforms in iOS and Android. ok, Blackberry too albeit a very small platform. Will they want to do another platform ?