Tomas Chlebek In 2009, Palm introduced its first new-generation smartphone with the webOS operating system. Apple renegade John Rubinstein was then at the head of Palm. Although the operating system could not be called revolutionary, it was very ambitious and surpassed its competitors in many ways.
Unfortunately, it did not get into many hands and it came to the point that Palm was bought by Hewlett-Packard in the middle of 2010 with a vision of potential success not only in the field of mobile phones, but also notebooks. CEO Leo Apotheker stated that webOS will be on every HP computer sold starting in 2012.
In February of this year, new models of smartphones with webOS were presented, now under the HP brand, and a very promising TouchPad tablet was also presented, together with them, a new version of the operating system bringing several interesting novelties.
A month ago, the new devices went on sale, but they sold very little. Developers didn't want to write apps for devices that "nobody" had, and people didn't want to buy devices for which "nobody" wrote apps. First there were several discounts from the original prices to match the competition, now HP has decided that their ambitions are probably lost for good and the announcement has been made that none of the current webOS devices will have a successor. It is undoubtedly a great pity, because at least the TouchPad was technologically an equal opponent to its competitors, in some aspects even surpassing the others.
In addition to the announcement of the death of webOS, it was also mentioned that in the computing sphere, HP will mainly focus on the enterprise sphere. The division that produces consumer devices is therefore expected to be sold. We can only sadly state that the companies that stood at the birth of IT and computers are disappearing and slowly becoming only encyclopedic terms.
Source: 9to5mac.com
only HW is dead, WebOS remains fully supported by HP and what's more, the license for 3rd parties will be opened!
Do you seriously think anyone will license this?
After all, Palm Pre Web Os was fine;o)
It's easier for people that way. First of all, we have two or three platforms here with a huge number of applications, and the others kind of fell asleep, and with the "starting" systems it was already difficult to get a hold of them. If we consider Android vs. iOS is it simply beautiful "left or right"? For the customer "the Best!". The customer does not like to think (at least for the most part) about 45 degrees to the right or 30 degrees to the left. The right to a simple but, if possible, different choice, which, in this case, will always be provided by a system with everything in it, which is what the customer chooses. In the case of HP, the system is OK, but without applications it is almost useless and it is almost impossible to fight for a place in the spotlight when the sun is setting and is almost above the horizon.
unlike the author of the article, I don't think it's a shame that mammoths like HP or Intel stopped selling things for end users. if they don't have it, then goodbye. I am an employee of HP and it has long been no longer such an innovative company as it was during the time of Mr. Hewlett and Packard. webos 3.0 is said to run faster than web applications in safari on the ipad 2 than on the touchpad - this is laughable... they bought a palm and expected it to be pure. no ecosystem, cluttered os (minimum webos 2.0 running on mobile phones is still far from flawless), os "optimized" for dedicated hardware - only hurvinek could have expected people to buy it at exorbitant prices
Condolences to Steve, master businessman and technology pioneer
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