{"id":5969,"date":"2012-01-02T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2012-01-02T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T14:47:06","slug":"sum-up-webos-not-enough-resources-and-a-flawed-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/sum-up-webos-not-enough-resources-and-a-flawed-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sum up WebOS? Not enough resources and a flawed foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The choice of webkit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 <a title=\"Recent and archival news about the iPhone.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/i\/iphone\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">iPhone<\/a>. But a former member of the WebOS app development team said the core issue with WebOS was actually Palm\u2019s inability to turn it into a platform that could capture the enthusiasm and loyalty of outside programmers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and there wasn&#8217;t enough in tank to keep it going:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0The company had enough staff to get the Pre out the door, but it underestimated how many people it would need to make improvements, the former employee said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brian Chen at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/02\/technology\/hewlett-packards-touchpad-was-built-on-flawed-software-some-say.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">NY Times<\/a>. Now contrast this with the efforts that Microsoft are putting in to Windows Phone. Really they are the only company that can stick at it long-term and challenge iOS and Android &#8211; and even then have they given the other platforms too much of a head start?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s going to be a fun 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s inability to turn it into a platform that could capture the enthusiasm and loyalty of outside programmers. &#8230;and there wasn&#8217;t enough in tank to keep it going: \u00a0The company had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,2383],"tags":[2265,2323,127,634],"class_list":["post-5969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-webos-pocket-computers-and-phones","tag-failure","tag-hp","tag-mobile","tag-webos","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1yh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}