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I wonder if WebOS will be attractive to any of the handset makers that harbor suspicions about Google/Motorolla - HTC? Samsung (call it Bada 2.0?)? Sony? - It

I wonder if WebOS will be attractive to any of the handset makers that harbor suspicions about Google/Motorolla - HTC? Samsung (call it Bada 2.0?)? Sony? - It strikes me that Apple could make a lot of money by making cheaper (sub $1,000) MacBooks now that the competition is running scared. If they could sell a 2010 white Macbook for $900 (which I presume would still have a respectable margin), you wouldn't see a PC on a college campus and they'd even make a compelling case for a bigger enterprise push..

nvictor 15y ago
googoolora :) i'm quite fond of that new name.
xp84 15y ago
> wonder if WebOS will be attractive to any of the handset makers As much as I hate Android and am friendly toward WebOS, and would like to see it make inroads, there's still the problem to solve of getting third party developers. Asking all the companies that make the apps that sell devices to develop for more than one or two dissimilar platforms is very hard. Sure, you can get a few, like Facebook and the others who have WebOS apps already, or you can count on an enthusiastic developer base to write grassroots replacement apps when the "big guys" snub your small platform. But you're not going to sell John Q Public with "We have dozens of apps and more are added every month!" Now, though you can't SELL them when you have few apps, you CAN bribe, and that's how Android clawed its way out of last place and into the lead. The only way to get those WebOS phones into enough hands to get developers to take notice and see it as a must-support platform is to give away the phones. Free with contract. That's the ONLY way. And this late in the game, it'd have to be free plus heavy marketing support.