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I don't think webOS is going to get a second chance for similar reasons that BeOS never got a second chance. Even if it has a lot of great ideas, apps, whatever

I don't think webOS is going to get a second chance for similar reasons that BeOS never got a second chance. Even if it has a lot of great ideas, apps, whatever, the groups who should be interested in webOS are using Android. Look at China, there are some mobile phone companies in China that could take webOS and make it really awesome and sell to millions of customers, but they are busy building Android phones and are working on building Tizen. Mozilla could have taken webOS and built on that, but instead they are doing their own OS. HP itself doesn't even seem to care about webOS, so it's hard to convince anyone else to do so either. It seems like webOS, Meego, bada, and all these other OS's are going to end up in the footnotes of the smartphone revolution similar to the many desktop PC os's that never quite took off.

beagle3 14y ago
> It seems like webOS, Meego, bada, and all these other OS's are going to end up in the footnotes of the smartphone revolution If bada is on that list, so should Windows Phone be: http://www.neowin.net/news/ouch-bada-os-market-share-larger-than-windows-phone http://www.neowin.net/news/ouch-bada-os-market-share-larger-...
zem 14y ago
i am still, despite everything, holding out hopes for a maemo/meego resurrection, simply because i have never before or since found another mobile platform as pleasurable to develop for. i kept feeling that meego was (like linux-on-the-desktop, perhaps) perpetually on the brink of a tipping point that would suddenly surprise everyone with an accelerating cascade of apps gushing forth. sadly, the experience of using it (on my n900) was plagued by the same problems that linux had in the early days, where the hardware and software randomly decided not to get on with each other (specifically, in my case, phone calls that would drop before the phone app swapped in, and a gps that took anywhere from 20 minutes to never to get a lock). i cannot help but think that if only nokia had thrown their full weight behind it, the second or third generation phone would have been truly stunning.

beagle3 14y ago

> It seems like webOS, Meego, bada, and all these other OS's are going to end up in the footnotes of the smartphone revolution If bada is on that list, so should Windows Phone be: http://www.neowin.net/news/ouch-bada-os-market-share-larger-than-windows-phone http://www.neowin.net/news/ouch-bada-os-market-share-larger-...

zem 14y ago

i am still, despite everything, holding out hopes for a maemo/meego resurrection, simply because i have never before or since found another mobile platform as pleasurable to develop for. i kept feeling that meego was (like linux-on-the-desktop, perhaps) perpetually on the brink of a tipping point that would suddenly surprise everyone with an accelerating cascade of apps gushing forth. sadly, the experience of using it (on my n900) was plagued by the same problems that linux had in the early days, where the hardware and software randomly decided not to get on with each other (specifically, in my case, phone calls that would drop before the phone app swapped in, and a gps that took anywhere from 20 minutes to never to get a lock). i cannot help but think that if only nokia had thrown their full weight behind it, the second or third generation phone would have been truly stunning.