HP officially discontinues webOS phones and TouchPad devices Comments
- Anonymous
- HDL
glad, 19 Aug 2011RIP..Web OS I hope Google had bought Palm instead of HPWhy would Google buy Palm? They already have their own very successful OS
- E17
- tV3
1 of the biggest yet equally frustrating piece of tech news this week even if I'm not a WebOS fan. An unfortunate classic example of how to bury a perfectly good OSS initiative through a huge established for profit corporation. It's insane to expect MASSIVE short term gains when there's proven incompetent measure of vision to pursue it.
TouchPad was a rushed job. Same like RIM's Playbook. What is it with these iPad competitors being dumb enough to score pathetic market percentiles just to prove a point?
When you literally are a newbie at delivering a tightly crafted touch UI experience on top of an already epic task at building the surrounding apps' ecosystem, SMARTPHONES are easier and a no brainer introductory solution.
But nooooo.. HP pulled a Veer, delayed the Pre 3 months and months off much publicized leaks and announcements and decided that a half assed WebOS tablet version that it's not ready for are good to go.
Voila the results now.
- Tony
- YUf
I was hoping a great company like HP will produce something that works for me and not the other way around. I don't think that is ever going to happen. I will just have to finally give up on all of them and eventually settle for an iphone...
- Anonymous
- v0X
Good riddance, webOS the most advanced os in the universe
- leemar
- v0X
if only nokia bought webos, hp does not have the resources and marketing strategy for selling phones. if its nokia's hardware and webos software. its gonna make a difference.
- Chris
- i}c
dnsking, 19 Aug 2011first it was ngage,then symbian,then meego and now webOS,whats next?badaOSmeego is still alive
- Anonymous
- PRW
jason24589, 19 Aug 2011Video Killed The Radio Star, Nokia Killed MeeGo HP killed WebOS Who's next?Windows Phone??
- PHONEADDICT
- tu6
HP made a mistake in manufacturing very tiny phone. As anyone anywhere in the planet whether they want to buy the phone. Not many. The OS doesn't matter to me as long as the phone is at least 4 inch will be good. Decent processor is a must.
- m
- 4mT
Wow. A lovely OS, gone? That's a shame.
if some of the smaller and newer Cell providers had a crack at the phones (e.g. Wind, Mobilicity in Canada with the AWS frequencies) maybe the hunger and buzz for such devices would have been given a fair chance and taken hold.
I can only hope a hungry and new cell manufacturer picks scoops up the WebOS system (if it goes on sale) and makes good use of it.
Ecosystems are key in this competition, but from my own experience, they aren't the end all be all for all users.
- dnsking
- I9g
first it was ngage,then symbian,then meego and now webOS,whats next?badaOS
- Todor
- 3iY
HP doesent have a clue.
They should help Palm and learn from them how to build proper smart phone with intuitive software on it. Instead, they destroyed something good... same story with Compaq.
There is no good ideas in HP to build something new, good and briliant.
HP become large dinosaur, producer of goods for average consumer... there is no ingenuity any more.
Maybe there is still a great amount of money, HP is big, but where is the Palm's spark of good idea how buisnes phone should look and work?!
P.S.
I write this on very ugly HP laptop. From larger producer of very ugly, tasteless PCs...
- glad
- w49
RIP..Web OS
I hope Google had bought Palm instead of HP
- wheyme
- K7g
hp should go for android os, they have great design and devices, a switch will be a success for them. i hope they will consider that as an option.
- garyjay
- UGn
hp ows the people who bought that device. They should offer to change the device os into android
- Steve Jobs
- Hx7
their WebOS software is smoking, while their phone form factor SUCKS bigtime. a stone like phone is the ugliest phone, maybe they would consider a candybar phone and they would sell it like hotdogs.
- Anonymous
- u{E
Well, if webOS is created way before android and iOS came about, it will probably be popular.. But then again, webOS was created to compete with iOS... Just too little too late..
- mark
- LhN
well its a shame. hp should of persisted with the webos. well they should rethink. maybe relaunch the tablets with android.
other than that ipad 2 anyone.
- xfox
- 3EH
i though that them buying Palm was a wrong move, cuz HP cant or wont be able to make it with the big guys in mobile development!
and as you can see, one of the giants (Nokia) is now struggling to compete.
now, i think the future for WebOS is to wait in the shadows until one of the major companies buy it. and either they will raise it again as a new mobile OS , or they will merge it with their own mobile OS.
- randall
- N9@
Nokia should go for webOS Now. How l wish it could happen.
- maker555
- Sr1
NOOOOOO the should not do that IVE always wanted that phone and now its discontinued wtf nnooo they have one of the best looking phones on the world along with that the best software. SOO its a shame. if they were selling it in SLOVENIJA it whould be ROCKSTAR HIT. from hearing todays news im so freaking sad. ive vanted this phone for two years and now that its actualy discontinued i am pissed. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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