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Originally Posted by jyl
I really hope HPQ succeeds with webOS. It is a really nice O/S. It is incredible that HPQ bought PALM and then let the Pre line languish for a year without a new model. Criminal stupidity. A year in phone/tablet land is like a decade in other industries. Another company guilty of criminal incompetence is NOK. How can the #1 handset maker have allowed itself to become all but irrelevant in smartphones and zero in tablets? Every single executive should have been fired a long time ago. It is very possible that, in 5-10 years, there will be no more Nokia phones. It almost happened to Motorola, actually that jury is still out.
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I was a serious PalmOS guy. Palm ran the same OS for 3 years, and then never released a new OS. In that time I ended up switching to Windows Mobile which was pretty well supported at the time.
WebOS is a day late and a dollar short. It is a captive OS, only for HP devices. This is the strength of Android, in that anyone can build an Android phone.
It is also a problem for Android, since there are so many hardware variations. But I see this as better, since you get to choose what you want.