anyone excited about webOS stuff?

[shortylickens]

I am not sure what you mean by not as open. HP/Palm encourages 3rd party development probably better than anybody. Just check out the forums over at precentral.net for a better idea of what I mean.

No I mean the OS itself. Much like Linux just about anybody can take Android for free and within reason do whatever the hell they want to it and put it on their hardware.

Can anybody get WebOS for free and change it and put it on their hardware?
If so, why do we not see more manufacturers using it?

 

[Slick5150]

No. HP has said they have no plans to make WebOS available to other manufacturers. They're obviously really high on its potential and want to keep it for themselves and integrate it into their entire product line (they've indicated netbooks, printers, a watch.... toasters? Who knows).

 

[kaerflog]

If HP put WebOS on phones that look like these, they would sell like hotcakes.
The good kind of hotcakes.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

If HP put WebOS on phones that look like these, they would sell like hotcakes.
The good kind of hotcakes.

where does this photo come from, are those supposed to be actual webos products?

 

[kaerflog]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/03/aava-mobile-reportedly-set-to-reveal-medfield-based-android-me/
Just example of how sexy a phone can be.

 

[QueBert]

If HP put WebOS on phones that look like these, they would sell like hotcakes.
The good kind of hotcakes.

I'm pretty sure HP could make low resolution renderings of a phone that doesn't exist, I mean why couldn't they?

 

[ultimatebob]

Sadly, it's become a three horse race between Blackberry OS, Apple iOS, and Android at this point. The tertiary players like Microsoft and Palm/HP are starting to fall by the wayside.

I fear that people are going to be saying how great WebOS was ten years from now, when falls to the same fate as BeOS and the Amiga.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

windows and palm are both good, theyre both a service pack out of being competitive. id take windows over android. if ms really wanted to be competitive they could start selling their devices without contracts

 

[MrX8503]

The only thing I like about that phone rendering is that the bezel is small. The rest of the phone I don't like very much.

I just read the Web OS 2.0 article from Anand. From what I gathered I'm pretty impressed. The OS doesn't add cool new features, it just polishes up features it already has. I like the new multitasking stacks and just type search bar. Definitely a step up on a common feature.

 

[shortylickens]

Sadly, it's become a three horse race between Blackberry OS, Apple iOS, and Android at this point. The tertiary players like Microsoft and Palm/HP are starting to fall by the wayside.

I fear that people are going to be saying how great WebOS was ten years from now, when falls to the same fate as BeOS and the Amiga.

Umm, Microsoft just released a brand new OS that appears to be selling like hotcakes.

 

[bigsnyder]

Ok, I understand your point now. Thank you for the clarification. I don't see where keeping the OS in house tied to a small subset of hardware is a problem, at least not yet (very "Apple" thing to say I know). I disagree for the PC market since that indistry has had a lot more time to mature, just think of all the software that will still run a 10yr old pc. The smartphone market at this point is still in its childhood. Even on android, who knows if your current phone will run all the apps you wish to run two years from now (isn't there already some fragmentation hardware wise?). I realize my example might not be the best to illustrate, but hopefully you can get the jist of what I mean.

No I mean the OS itself. Much like Linux just about anybody can take Android for free and within reason do whatever the hell they want to it and put it on their hardware.

Can anybody get WebOS for free and change it and put it on their hardware?
If so, why do we not see more manufacturers using it?

 

[cbn]

Even on android, who knows if your current phone will run all the apps you wish to run two years from now (isn't there already some fragmentation hardware wise?).

According to this, the ARM architecture is backwards compatible.

http://wanderingcoder.net/2010/07/19/ought-arm/

The ARM architecture comes in a few different versions developed over time; each one added some new instructions and other improvements, while being backwards compatible with the previous versions. The first iPhone had a processor that implements ARMv6 (short for ARM version 6), while the latest devices have processors that can support ARMv7.

Hopefully someone else with more knowledge can clear up any additional questions you may have.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Sadly, it's become a three horse race between Blackberry OS, Apple iOS, and Android at this point. The tertiary players like Microsoft and Palm/HP are starting to fall by the wayside.

I fear that people are going to be saying how great WebOS was ten years from now, when falls to the same fate as BeOS and the Amiga.

Really? You'd put Blackberry OS in the same category? Blackberry sales have been decreasing.