That new HP desktop looks awfully familiar…
Hopefully HP will have more success in the courts than Samsung did.
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Sum up WebOS? Not enough resources and a flawed foundation
The choice of webkit: After some internal debate, the company chose to have WebOS rely on WebKit, an open-source software engine used by browsers to display Web pages. Mr. Mercer said that this was a mistake because it prevented applications from running fast enough to be on par with the iPhone. But a former member of the WebOS app development team said the core issue with WebOS was actually Palm’s inability to turn it into a platform that could capture the enthusiasm and loyalty of outside programmers. …and there wasn’t enough in tank to keep it going: The company had
The TouchPad aftermarket proves nothing about its commercial potential
A small number of geeks, chasing after even smaller quantities of end-of-lined geek toys, are keeping the price high. That does not mean that the HP Touchpad would have been a commercial success, nor does it mean that the price is reflecting the general feeling of a machine that should still be on sale. Geeks will buy one everything they can get their hands on. Selling a few thousand is easy. Selling a few hundreds of thousands, to get a 0.1% share, that’s hard. And you need far more market share to make a going and profitable concern.
WebOS future to be decided this week?
Surely the time for HP to decide on the future of WebOS was before they launched the fire sale on the TouchPad, pulled the rug out from the developers and the ecosystem, and did a pretty good scorched earth number on the platform? Cart. Horse.
HP’s split means they never learned from Palm’s biggest mistake
Hold on, Palm’s operating system, being split into two different branches of the company – hardware and software – all so that it should be easier for the parent company to licence the OS to other manufacturers and thus create a thriving ecosystem of devices. Where have I heard that before? Oh yes… Palm, Inc.
Leave WebOS to wither in the corner, Samsung won’t save it
Samsung are going to buy WebOS? Oh come on, pull the other one. The name of the game in the smartphone space is one of perception. It’s not enough to be the best operating system when geeks do a double blind test of the underlying code and SDK capabilities, the market needs to emotionally belive that you are the best (which, imo, is one of the reasons Symbian is where it is now). So remind me why a failed operating system, with minimal developer support and not one hardware success that could even be counted as a triple, let alone a
