HP calls it quits with webOS

2. protozeloz posted on 18 Aug 2011, 16:20 0 0

R.I.P
I would love If the G company hires some more webOS devs they could help the OS grow a lot

3. rwolf1984 posted on 18 Aug 2011, 16:27 5 7

FINALLY!!!!! Tired of customers asking for Palms and Pres...Sux to be HP they wasted a lot of time, money and market share trying to be Apple...

4. IEatApples posted on 18 Aug 2011, 16:56 6 1

About time. Webos might of had a shot if there marketing had been stepped up. Rim is next, then we have a 3 horse race. I really hope wp7 can compete because I really don't want to see an apple android only market.

5. som posted on 18 Aug 2011, 17:00 2 1

Android and iOS are top dogs and Windows is a top cat.

7. remixfa posted on 18 Aug 2011, 17:13 3 4

Google should totally buy them up and take some of the bright points of WebOS and add it into android. That would differentiate android and iOS even further (with android waaaaay ahead in features and usabilty just like it is now :) ) Im sure whatever patents Palm had would be useful in that anti apple litigation thats going on as well since palm has been around forever.

8. I am Right (unregistered) posted on 18 Aug 2011, 17:29 0 0

People are MISREADING this! It says only that hardware is going away. They might keep webOS and license it out like Microsoft with WP7.

10. Jay (unregistered) posted on 18 Aug 2011, 17:42 2 0

All they needed was AMAZING hardware. HP is known for there Computers. And they are the dominant ones in the Windows PC realm. They could have easily created hardware to blow the others away even APPLE! HP & APPLE are at the same level when it comes to the shear size and production. Come on HP don't give up yet. The Touchpad hardware sucks, so does PRE 3 and VEER. You released last years tech this year. NOT GOOD! They gave up way to quick. Web Os has alot of potential.

11. Man2006 (unregistered) posted on 18 Aug 2011, 18:02 0 0

I hope they embark onto Windows Phone 7!

12. M0nkeyBr posted on 18 Aug 2011, 18:04 0 0

I think Rim should try to get it and put it on blackberries with a update

14. Joshing4fun posted on 18 Aug 2011, 18:06 2 0

This is pretty sad. I don't have or really care about WebOS but just the idea of losing a ambitious competitor in the smartphone world is pretty disappointing. I want more options that just Droid or iPhone.

15. ArmageddonX posted on 18 Aug 2011, 18:32 0 0

This is what HP/Palm gets for lying to it's legacy device customers about webOS 2.0. Good riddance. We tried to warn them...

17. christianqwerty posted on 18 Aug 2011, 18:50 0 0

WEBos is a great os :(. they should have made a Palm Centro 2 or a Palm Treo pro with WEBos on it. would have been killer since treos and centros were the main smartphones in the begining

18. dandirk posted on 18 Aug 2011, 19:07 1 0

Palm had its day... and that was back in black and white PDAs... Even then they couldn't compete with MS 6.5 and BB.

They had a shot when they first released it, MAYBE had a shot right when HP bought them out (I personally think they were dead then).

HP waited to long, and honestly I don't think HP had the proper experience to release a big consumer phone/device OS.

They can do some server software, some desktop hardware.... They didn't stand a chance against MS, Apple, Google, RIM. EVEN if they had the BEST OS in the world.

20. QWIKSTRIKE posted on 18 Aug 2011, 20:24 1 0

old legacy hard ware killed palm....that little ass screen, and that stupid portrairt slider killed it before it was even sold.....I tried the web os Pre and had there been better hard ware it would have made it......old legacy out dated hard ware failed it just like the BB is failing today because of legacy hard ware

23. snowgator posted on 18 Aug 2011, 21:08 0 0

i 've got nothing. This shocks me. Thouvht for sure HP would just drop phones and go headfirst into tablets. I do hope someone who needs the platform goes for it. I just do not think most companies can do both software and hardware anymore. What a sad ending for WeBOS.

24. GeckoHA559 posted on 18 Aug 2011, 21:22 0 0

The reason for letting it go has nothing to do with webOS. The release date's are always delayed. They haven't even released the veer and pre3 in all countries they were expecting to release and already they have given up, its their own doing. I would have liked to see another bar/slab factor webOS phone but it looks like this isn't going to happen now.

26. CRICKETownz posted on 18 Aug 2011, 23:01 1 0

everything started out as OS wars...now its coming down to patent wars? smh...this is becoming as senseless as 3D smartphones.

29. Sniggly posted on 19 Aug 2011, 00:27 1 1

A sadly ignominious end for a great OS. I want to see it survive somehow. It deserved way better than HP.

31. lalalalal (unregistered) posted on 19 Aug 2011, 00:52 0 0

so the pre 3 wont come????

43. rex1213 posted on 19 Aug 2011, 17:40 0 0

Now this is the danger being brought by hiring ex-Microsoft employees. Companies such as Nokia and HP (and in the past up until now - Yahoo, Novell and VMWare) already are suffering the consequences of hiring staff from the evil empire.

For instance, Nokia's current CEO Stephen Elop (a former Microsoft head of Microsoft Office line of products) has already killed MeeGo OS which is based on Linux. And now it is HP's turn. WebOS, as we know it, is also based on Linux. And no doubt, Microsoft did such thing as "Entryism" at HP to kill WebOS. Yes, Microsoft is evil. They will kill every competitor supporting Linux.
Let's all hope Samsung doesn't get targetted for their Bada OS (which is based on Linux kernel) or Intel for holding on with MeeGo. And also Google, which HAS and WILL ALWAYS BE Microsoft's biggest challenge because of its Android OS based on Linux, too.

Hope Nokia and HP will survive and their board understand the dangers of appointing executives from Microsoft.

http://techrights.org/2010/09/14/anssi-vanjoki-exits-osc-angry/

http://techrights.org/2010/07/24/entryism-hp-lenovo/

http://techrights.org/2010/09/30/apotheker-entryism-at-hp/

http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_Hijack_of_Yahoo


In short, Microsoft is currently doing an INDUSTRY-WIDE HIJACK.
Warning!

44. AlwaysHonorLegacy (unregistered) posted on 20 Aug 2011, 02:44 0 0

Palm had a bizzilion loyal legacy users that could have and wanted to move to WebOS but were purposely frozen out of WebOS simply because palm didn't let them sync up easily with ten years worth of data. Rather they forced them to the cloud which was a half-assed transition. How in hell did they decide to orphan all the user base for some half assed attempt to emulate iOS. Dumbs**t move by underemployed MBA bean counters. Meanwhile folks like me are buying up Treos on ebay because theres nothing like a Treo for daily business use.