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 Originally Posted by errsta
Either I'm delusional about webOS superiority....
So I ask you, most likely equally biased denizens: am I the crazy one???
I think by and large webos denizens like what they like so much that they are blind to see the perspective of people that do not hold the same biases. Worse they are blind to the fact that most consumers are NOT like them.
You mentioned "superiority." but that is subjective. Example, I don't care about multitasking. So what you may consider a feature making webos superior i consider nearly irrelevant. Another exampe: I'd rather have a great camera app with tons of options like white balance adjustment similar to the android os then a plain camera app like webos. Like to me an OS without the apps i want is by definition not superior because i can't do what i want with it. But the point is it's subjective. And what one person finds superior another may not.
I think the people that love webos rather then identify real problems with both the software and hardware, simply decided they'd ignore it. Stifle any opposing voices, stifle anyone that dared claim webos was less then perfect. Columns i've seen written in the last few days would have gotten people banned two weeks ago. And calling people names like trolls and such became common place for more then a year here. And it was going on back when the first person mentioned that maybe the pre minus wasn't getting the sell through it needed three months after launch. Or That the touchpad may be thick. Or the Veer was small. Those are all things an average consumer may bring up but many people just had no interest in the opinion. I now find it interesting that on the This is my next podcast you've got Self describe webos lovers like Dieter saying "HP drank their on koolaid. they were like we got scale." That's a webos guy saying, HP's failure was believing the stuff that was being parroted around these boards for 9 months, the koolaid.
You bring up the "superior" operating system but i'd argue for most potential consumers it doesn't matter enough without the other things like apps and accessories and stuff. Hell i don't think it matters much. if it did they'd have taken share from apple, android and blackberry. Clearly other things matter more to a whole lot of people. And there seems to be a sense to me that the OS is perfect. But i never thought so. I mean the stock music player is a joke, album art still shows up the photos at time, the camera, like i said above, has few features, the calender had some issues, falty doc editing, cumbersome copy and paste, the mail client lacks features. It's a good O.S. but i also think the denizens, as you put it, have a false sense of superiority of their O.S.
That and there are people here that just hate apple. But think everyone is just like them. And that alone would and should sell devices and the device doesn't sell it's just cause that person loves apple. Most people just don't care about any company. And that same this is my next podcast made touch on that, albeit in the context of people buying android phones, saying
"There is a very small amount of people that say I hate company X so i won't buy their products. that's crazy. If you think the people that went and bought the droid in any kind of majority bought it to make a stand against apple you are high and drunk. And you also may be emotionally unstable and you need help. The number of those people is so tiny. I'm not saying i don't get it. I get it. You hate apple. They suck. They are the worst. You're in a very small group of special people. Most people just want a cool phone that does awesome stuff."
That's like in minute 36 of that podcast. But that mentality is all over Precentral. And it's part the delusion you speak of. Most people don't care about that stuff even if people here do. And it's a bad bad business plan to try to appeal to that tiny group.
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I already have dosbox running.
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