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HP killed webOS. They did it through the miltitude of poor decisions they made.
1) Announce the product months before delivery
2) Release the product before the software was ready and lag free.
3) Not pay enough big name developers to create apps on launch
4) Attempted to completely change webOS within such a small time frame.
5) Did not market the device enough
6) Did not price it accordingly
What HP should have done is release an afforable 7" wifi and 3G tablet in February days after the announcement that was based off of webOS 2.1, just slightly scaled up. It would not have been as elegant as webOS 3.0, but it would have been more stable, available NOW to consumers, and have 6000 working apps on release.
This also would have killed off the Playbook as people would consider it a knock off to the webOS tablet and inferior.
Then, they should have worked on webOS 3.0 longer until it was ready and released it right before christmas coming up, for $300.
Then, release 3.0 as an update to the 7" tablets
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