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 Originally Posted by ursula
No, I do know what I'm talking about. And if anyone thinks WebOS will be the next Android in any time in the future doesn't know what they're talking about. WebOS will most likely NOT be picked up by any manufacturers in the future besides MAYBE, and I'm screaming maybe at the top of my lungs, a couple obscure Asian companies will throw it on one of their low end GSM devices that will never make it to the U.S. Three quarters of you are living in a dream and it's getting old. When I mean WebOS becomes something like Ubuntu, I mean it becomes an alternative to other operating systems by means of DIY. Android, iOS, and WP7 aren't going anywhere but up.
I love WebOS just as much as the next, but your kidding yourself if you think the heads of companies give a rats. "HTC released the first Android!!!" Yeah because they weren't making anymore money with WinMo 6 than the next guy. Even with hardware makers coughing up 15$ to Microsoft they are making more money than they ever were. HTC, Samsung, Motorola (especially now since they were bought by Google), and everyone else DOES NOT and I repeat DOES NOT care about WebOS.
I think you're kinda you're making a point against an argument that most people really didn't make. I surely didn't say, "WebOS will be the next Android", few people except the zealots i think honestly believe that and few have said, "it will be picked up by other makers." i think there's a difference in predicting my personal idea of what the future will be and what i think the people should aim for. i was talking about the latter. Hell i'm closer to the Webos is dead camp but for my money that doesn't mean they should aim low. i think if you're gonna do it aim fricken high.
point is if the goal of Webos is just to be ubuntu the goal is utter failure for me. To me success isn't winning traction with the tinkerer or the hobbyist it's winning the mainstream. I'm not even saying i think webos actually can be more. Personally i don't think Webos will ever be more then for tinkerers. But that being said if you want the platform to prosper, being ubuntu which almost nobody uses isn't close to enough. I agree which most of your assessment of the future and even the idea that it may end up being like ubuntu. Problem is Ubuntu is something that i'd almost never want to use. And if Webos is something i never want to use then it's in a bad place from my perspective. I don't think it will ever be android just like you. I still think you try to. Even if it's futile.
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