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 Originally Posted by rwhitby
You are assuming that a small community of users can actually do something which can significantly affect the success of webOS in the market, when the company that owns webOS has no such commercial plans publicly announced.
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-- Rod
No, actually I am not.
I was the one who above hinted at the problem, that an OS which is not supported won't be used. And I extend on that and add: no matter which device it runs on it won't be bought with webOS on it, if there is no support by company and by developers.
And an OS which won't be bought won't be supported (by devs and/or a hardwarecompany likewise)
This is a cycle not supported->not bought->not supported-> ... etc.
My question was therefore:
How do we (as a small community) break our favorite OS out of this cycle. How can we get WebOS to appeal to more people or better even companies?
You are of course right, that as a very small and dwindling community, we have not much leverage on the market, especially with a company like HP in the background who don't want to invest anymore into this asset.
Let's look at our community. I see roughly following groups (correct me if I leave someone out unintentionally)
--> There are people like the WebOS Internals guys who are constantly helping WebOS to no die (yet) and I applaud them for their effort.
--> There are the phoenix people from whom I don't see much, except for some nice short poems on Twitter yet.
--> And there are people like me who are not so much into programming (I was once, biut that was 15 years ago) . All we can do is donate (which I did and do), buy/use apps (which I did and do) and show off their devices to the people around them.
As for showing off, this was really nice, as long as there was hardware to buy. Nowadays it becomes a painstakingly arduous task, because you show all the niceties of WebOS and after all the "Uuuuhs" and "Aaaahs" you get the question "I wanna buy it, where can I get it?" and have to admit "Sorry for the teaser, guys, but there is only hope yet, that there once will be hardware to support WebOS again".
Therefore my "demonstration runs" have ceased a bit in the last few months.
It is a difficult time for us WebOS affiliates. And my question was: what more can we do?
I asked this in expection for suggestions in earnest, ideas of the brainstorming kind, you know? Some outside the box thinking ...
So far for my intentions. Well ment is most of the time the opposite of well done, I guess
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