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 Originally Posted by eblade
Unfortunately, webos did not have the ability to play catch up and win. When it needed top of the line hardware, none was to be had. The software being run on the second rate hardware was... Not as high quality. Everywhere Palm turned, they got screwed, and they had deadlines to hit, without the money available to either get a truly world class product or to push the deadlines. Maybe, just maybe, if traditional webos had managed to get 3.x into where Open was when Open started, and the pre3 were released as a budget smart phone, and the go had made it to production.. Then we'd be in a webos world with hpalm firmly number 3... But wish into one hand, and **** into the other, and see which hand fills up first.
Sadly in this world there will always be deadlines, and funding shortfalls, and hardware misses.. But hopefully the impact of those will all be less in the future, and without a perfect storm of all of them hitting at the worst possible moments to combine for a handful of ****
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I still wonder in my idealistic way, had HP simply cut the price of the TP but not outright cancel the entire WebOS program, they might have been able to ride the traction of getting WebOS in peoples hands and possibly ride that long enough to get most of the glaring issues cleaned up and maybe even up to version 4.0. Even though they still would have taken the financial hit on the hardware - which they did anyway during the firesale with absolutely no upside, in my alternate reality, they would have at least spread WebOS around and it might have been able to become the alternate to IOS and Android with the next gen hardware we had a peek of in the Verge article a few weeks back. That intergrated keyboard model looked pretty sweet.
OK, I am awake now.
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