This also indicates that HP thinks youth are one of their target markets for the device, which is kind of odd. There’s nothing very exciting about it right now for younger people, besides perhaps Flash-support in the browser, but once they actually use it I don’t think they’ll find that much of an advantage.

Agreed. The majority of customers purchasing tablets are older – especially in the case of Android, Blackberry, and presumably HP’s WebOS. I would imagine children are being introduced to legacy devices (their father’s old iPhone/iPod Touch, even first-generation iPads).