Thread: HP says bye bye to webOS hardware
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2011-08-18 , 22:18
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Can't say the same about MeeGo for this dev at the moment. No N950, no N9, Aegis looks to be a hindrance and Elop at the helm seems hellbent in making this fail and no other handset has come forward with MeeGo on it.
I actually agree with your post. Yesterday, I'd say that webOS had more chances of survival than Meego handset. I had widely regarded it as a backup platform; a rescue boat to jump instantly the day this ship sank. And with the news about N9 availability I had already really started considering the possibility of this ship sinking.

However, today my rescue boat sank. I'm even in a worse mood than the day the Elopcalypse happened. webOS had more market share and a CEO that wasn't outright a Microsoft sold-out.


And btw, Aegis is _really_ a hindrance. The webOS equivalent is much, much more lighter. As I once tweeted, during the early days it was easier to run a Ubuntu chroot under webOS than under Meego.
Thanks to the recent acquired ability to disable Aegis this has fortunately changed though.
 

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