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I think you meant "...has not been..." and I agree with your points. However, one thing I have noticed among my friends and myself with apps is that there reall

I think you meant "...has not been..." and I agree with your points. However, one thing I have noticed among my friends and myself with apps is that there really only needs to be a few dozen apps and 80% of the planet are (is?) happy. Look at how static the top apps for ipad and iphone are month after month. Provided porting an app to a new platform isn't too arduous then it could work out. Games especially, they are typically very easily ported since most run atop game engines that are very easily recompiled. That said, I think Apple will eclipse HP with iPad2 and they have the 'cool' brand recognition. Think HP and you think printers still. Blackberry on the other hand... Let's wait for the battery spec to really see how this thing will work out. Apple cut many many corners to give the ipad fabulous battery life and the video I have seen of the touchpad makes it look really slow, very unsnappy performance. Possibly they are running developer builds and it will be faster when it ships.

wvenable 16y ago
There's the famous quote about software features: most people only use 10% but they all use a different 10%. Windows XP SP2 was held up because Deer Hunter wouldn't run but I doubt most people on hacker news have ever even played it. Sure, every platform might end up with a copy of Angry Birds but the more fringe the platform the smaller the selection. It's almost guaranteed that not a single innovative app or game will come to WebOS first. And who knows how long it'll take the platform to even get Angry Birds. That's a significant disadvantage to owning a Touchpad. I'm on the fence as to whether or not HP should have used the Palm brand for all this technology. It seems a logical choice to use Palm but the HP brand implies size, money, and staying power that Palm hasn't had recently.
- hornokplease 16y ago
  For what it's worth, Angry Birds was ported to webOS last summer: http://pdnblog.palm.com/2010/08/interviewing-the-master-eagle-of-angry-birds-as-he-publishes-the-game-to-webos/ http://pdnblog.palm.com/2010/08/interviewing-the-master-eagl...

wvenable 16y ago

There's the famous quote about software features: most people only use 10% but they all use a different 10%. Windows XP SP2 was held up because Deer Hunter wouldn't run but I doubt most people on hacker news have ever even played it. Sure, every platform might end up with a copy of Angry Birds but the more fringe the platform the smaller the selection. It's almost guaranteed that not a single innovative app or game will come to WebOS first. And who knows how long it'll take the platform to even get Angry Birds. That's a significant disadvantage to owning a Touchpad. I'm on the fence as to whether or not HP should have used the Palm brand for all this technology. It seems a logical choice to use Palm but the HP brand implies size, money, and staying power that Palm hasn't had recently.

hornokplease 16y ago
For what it's worth, Angry Birds was ported to webOS last summer: http://pdnblog.palm.com/2010/08/interviewing-the-master-eagle-of-angry-birds-as-he-publishes-the-game-to-webos/ http://pdnblog.palm.com/2010/08/interviewing-the-master-eagl...