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I'm all for hey-why-not geek cred, but the reason for getting a Touchpad is WebOS. There is nothing intrinsically special about the hardware that deserves Andro

I'm all for hey-why-not geek cred, but the reason for getting a Touchpad is WebOS. There is nothing intrinsically special about the hardware that deserves Android (except that it is cheap right now). I'd be more impressed with figuring a way to get WebOS onto other devices.

drivebyacct2 15y ago
>There is nothing intrinsically special about the hardware that deserves Android (except that it is cheap right now). Isn't that just it though? >I'd be more impressed with figuring a way to get WebOS onto other devices. One set of fingers is crossed for open source webOS. The other is for boot2gecko to replace it entirely. Web Intents can serve as Android intents and we can have the richness and ease of webOS and free cross-platform web apps.
CesareBorgia 15y ago
I think that the reason for getting the Touchpad has changed significantly with the price drop to $100. But just to push your point a bit, what do you like so much about WebOS that you'd like it on other devices?
InclinedPlane 15y ago
The. Intrinsicly special aspect of the hardwareis that there's a fire sale going on right now at bestbuy. A solid middle of the road android (probably soon enough) tablet for one hundred bucks is a solid acquisition.
angryasian 15y ago
just picked up one this weekend, some reasons are: 1. WebOS international support is terrible. This is a huge reason to get Android on it. They've completely ignored it. 2. The browser while good, the card system is slow when trying to use it as a tabbed browser. Opening a new link in a new card is quite slow. I don't care for app support because their browser is good, but if you are going to rely on the browser at least have a decent tabbed browser. Look at Dolphin browser on Android to see how a mobile browser should be done. Also another limitation seems to be I can't download files from the browser ex dropbox. 3. Overall the system feels sluggish. Android has multitasking right, WebOS doesn't. After the Android team optimizes and overclocks this hardware, I imagine its going to be pretty good. 4. Lack of Customization, I can't even make a picture fullscreen wallpaper on the background. And since you can't place anything on the desktop/wall area.. a nice big picture would look good. Overall its solid and feels polished, but WebOS is overall really lacking and compared to Honeycomb I don't see it as better. The best thing is flash support works great, and I can watch all the media I want from streaming flash sites. The biggest benefit is getting honeycomb/Ice cream sandwich on a solid tablet for $100.
chucknthem 15y ago
I'm actually getting one hoping that android will be ported to it soon. Then I have a cheap tablet with great hardware. Sure webOS is decent upon release, but it'll take a long time to achieve the kind of open source dev community that android has if it was open sourced, so there'll be an initial slump in development efforts. Plus, without official support (nor commercial success), the market place will be a ghost town.
nextparadigms 15y ago
It's a $100 "high-end" tablet, that you can use as your own Android tablet. Why the heck not? You won't find Android tablets of that performance and quality for that price.
sjs382 15y ago
> There is nothing intrinsically special about the hardware that deserves Android (except that it is cheap right now). That's exactly what makes it special. And that's whats important to most of the buyers, I imagine.

drivebyacct2 15y ago

>There is nothing intrinsically special about the hardware that deserves Android (except that it is cheap right now). Isn't that just it though? >I'd be more impressed with figuring a way to get WebOS onto other devices. One set of fingers is crossed for open source webOS. The other is for boot2gecko to replace it entirely. Web Intents can serve as Android intents and we can have the richness and ease of webOS and free cross-platform web apps.

CesareBorgia 15y ago

I think that the reason for getting the Touchpad has changed significantly with the price drop to $100. But just to push your point a bit, what do you like so much about WebOS that you'd like it on other devices?

InclinedPlane 15y ago

The. Intrinsicly special aspect of the hardwareis that there's a fire sale going on right now at bestbuy. A solid middle of the road android (probably soon enough) tablet for one hundred bucks is a solid acquisition.

angryasian 15y ago

just picked up one this weekend, some reasons are: 1. WebOS international support is terrible. This is a huge reason to get Android on it. They've completely ignored it. 2. The browser while good, the card system is slow when trying to use it as a tabbed browser. Opening a new link in a new card is quite slow. I don't care for app support because their browser is good, but if you are going to rely on the browser at least have a decent tabbed browser. Look at Dolphin browser on Android to see how a mobile browser should be done. Also another limitation seems to be I can't download files from the browser ex dropbox. 3. Overall the system feels sluggish. Android has multitasking right, WebOS doesn't. After the Android team optimizes and overclocks this hardware, I imagine its going to be pretty good. 4. Lack of Customization, I can't even make a picture fullscreen wallpaper on the background. And since you can't place anything on the desktop/wall area.. a nice big picture would look good. Overall its solid and feels polished, but WebOS is overall really lacking and compared to Honeycomb I don't see it as better. The best thing is flash support works great, and I can watch all the media I want from streaming flash sites. The biggest benefit is getting honeycomb/Ice cream sandwich on a solid tablet for $100.

chucknthem 15y ago

I'm actually getting one hoping that android will be ported to it soon. Then I have a cheap tablet with great hardware. Sure webOS is decent upon release, but it'll take a long time to achieve the kind of open source dev community that android has if it was open sourced, so there'll be an initial slump in development efforts. Plus, without official support (nor commercial success), the market place will be a ghost town.

nextparadigms 15y ago

It's a $100 "high-end" tablet, that you can use as your own Android tablet. Why the heck not? You won't find Android tablets of that performance and quality for that price.

sjs382 15y ago

> There is nothing intrinsically special about the hardware that deserves Android (except that it is cheap right now). That's exactly what makes it special. And that's whats important to most of the buyers, I imagine.