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08/05/2011, 04:49 AM
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I’ve tested them [Preware] on my own loaner TouchPad and I can say definitively that they absolutely do work. If you own a TouchPad, I strongly recommend installing them.
That being said, I think that if you as a consumer have to install any kind of “Hack” on a product to make it run optimally, then from the perspective of a mobile platform and as a device manufacturer, you’ve failed miserably.
I don’t want to pick on HP specifically, because Google is absolutely guilty of this with Android and Honeycomb as well.
The bottom line is this: no consumer wants to have to hack their product using these community-supported packages to make their device work as advertised out of the box. If these patches were actually needed, they should have been applied prior to shipping the OS on the device.
And if HP is going to use double-secret community developers to improve their software, then they might as well do the honest thing and Open Source all of WebOS, for real. Because what they are currently doing in my opinion is unprofessional and only hurts adoption of the platform.
HP: If you want folks to hack the TouchPad, then Open Source it. | ZDNet
Worth reading the whole thing - thoughts?
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