And just like that, it’s gone, about 16 months after HP’s acquisition of Palm HP has decided to “discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the Touchpad and webOS phones.”
well that was a waste of a large amount of cash then wasn’t it !, that means owners of Touchpad’s,veer’s,Pixi’s and Pre’s (myself included) are now F*****, they are just dumping it dead in the water, after they announced that they were going to do miraculous thing like put WebOS on laptops and PC’s and make better hardware, you made a midget and a slightly beefier version of the current device, “better hardware” would have been an all touch, 4” 720p HD Display,Dual or Quad-core WebOS phone, that would have been better hardware, what you have done are minor re hashes ,what about the touchscreen WebOS device we saw , is that ever going to be made, we don’t know, but i will bet money on it not being made.
HP have still said they will consider licensing WebOS, but to me that’s like having a Horse, purposely shooting it in it’s knee and then lending it to your mates to have a race round a track, they might as well have sold it to Samsung or HTC or even Google, someone who could make proper use of it, or better than a company who haven’t had a hit phone in almost a decade.
it does make me wonder, what was HP’s offer that made palm go “crap, we should go with them, they can really help us out in the long term” whatever it was it was obviously a load of codswallop ,they have done nothing of much interest, the Touchpad could have been made by anyone, and probably made better by anyone else, the Pre 3 would be a dual-core 1.5GHz 3.72 qHD screen if it was made by someone else, and the veer would have at least had a 1GHz CPU with a 3.5mm Headphone jack and a Micro USB port.
so nothing HP has done has really helped palm, they shipped the devices late, the products were very lacklustre and unfinished, i sort of wish palm hadn’t sold WebOS , so it could have at least kept it’s dignity.
a very disgusted Dom signing off here
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