There's a lot of reasons why Palm didn't make it as an independent company, and as much as hipster-geeks enjoy the web standards love and other hackery, WebOS i

There's a lot of reasons why Palm didn't make it as an independent company, and as much as hipster-geeks enjoy the web standards love and other hackery, WebOS is one of those reasons. I'm a geek, but when it comes to mobile stuff I'm fundamentally a consumer, and I feel very burned having used a Pre for the past 14 months or so: poor performance, bone-headed development priorities (#1 being the iTunes "integration" snafu), no meaningful updates, long-standing unresolved bugs, and an impoverished marketplace. I'm sure the platform will do good for HP, but I can't imagine ever bothering with it again. Yup, I'm biased, sorry, but only by my experience. I'm enjoying my iPad, and will enjoy an Android device in the next couple of months.