Re: HP says bye bye to WEebOS hardware
 

You've summed up my sentiment exactly. $#!^% :-(

Re: HP says bye bye to webOS hardware
 

Would be nice if all the Meego, webOS and Linux fans would buy some Chinese hardware company and release our own OS, free of commercial pressures and MS infiltrators :D

Re: HP says bye bye to webOS hardware
 

in fact this can benefict MeeGo in the way that WebOS developers turn into to Meego as the only linux option, so the maemo comunity grow with the exiled WebOS community, but the problem remais the same there is community but there is no hardware to support it!!

Re: HP says bye bye to WEebOS hardware
 

Amen, brother. Like you're reading my mind

Re: HP says bye bye to webOS hardware
 

Of course, the dumping of WebOS is what's making all the news, but there are interesting ramifications for the hardware side as well.

One might assume that, based on this decision, HP will shelve their ongoing legal stoush with Oracle over the itanium/d-base issue?

Given that Oracle and Intel have lost no love over the above matter, and Intel are still eager to push into the tablet and mobile sector, WebOS, at least might be a good option for them to buy if only for the UI compenents that could be rewritten for x86 on Meego.....

that could give them leverage by offering a turn key Os and Chip solution to hardware vendors like LG, Samsung and HTC

Re: HP says bye bye to webOS hardware
 

It's funny, Google paid $12.5B for Motorola...yet NOKIA cannot even spend a mere 10% of it to secure its future.

Had Nokia bought Palm for $1.2B, it would've fused WebOS into MeeGo and probably start selling in time for last years Xmas. That would mean it would've one-up Microsoft for developers and potentially become the third largest OS.

It would've also meant protection from Apple and Microsoft, as the combined patent portfolio would've been large enough to prevent any lawsuits.

And even more importantly, it would've given Nokia the chance to finally enter the Nth American market.

So the $1.2B price would've given them a $2+B investment.
Now Nokia is drowning in its own demise, probably has dropped below $1.2B in value. Guess you have to spend money to make money.

Just think for a second;
Nokia's leading hardware + dualcore + Linux + Qt apps + WebOS UX = glory!

And just for bonus points, Nokia's logo "Connecting People" has a Palm in it!

Re: HP says bye bye to webOS hardware
 

Nokia didn't need to buy Palm or WebOS, they had their own Qt stack which if not superior was at least equivalent. They did rip off UI ideas like "swipe" from WebOS anyway, and what is QML if not an attempt to appeal to the same (webby background) developer crowd?

Considering how long it took HP, or how long it took Nokia to get plain Harmattan out (ie, with neither company having to do the integration), fat chance.

Re: HP says bye bye to webOS hardware
 

like the good old japanese in the movie "letters from Iwo Jima" each big company has killed itself in the so called developed world.... looks like the next decade will now truly belong to asian manufacturers (sharing seats with apple and google of course)

what a shameful suicide!

Re: HP says bye bye to webOS hardware
 

sad thing for consumers in general is that "If there's a notch on the technology timeline demarcating the PC and post-PC eras, we might have just crossed it."

truly sad, as this heralds that we the consumer are moving more and more from a productivity based PC culture to a media consuming lazy bum culture,

Re: HP says bye bye to webOS hardware
 

On the smartphone/tablet side, it is a sad day for consumers in general too, as with fewer options, this gives Apple, and Goog-orola a greater pricing advantage....

not to mention lesser innovation