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by j_col 15y ago
I have a Touchpad and a Pre3, and I have to say I love them both. When you get your Touchpad, please give webOS a go as it is a fanastic platform, you may find yourself wanted to keep it and hoping that HP keep it alive (like the rest of u
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by j_col 15y ago
> IMO, webOS is a superior OS to Android. +1. I really don't understand why there is so much effort to install non-tablet OSs on a tablet with a lauded tablet-optimized OS already installed....
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IsTheTouchPadInStock.com(isthetouchpadinstock.com)
2 points by j_col 15y ago|1 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
Totally agree, lets hope the man makes a full recovery. While I'm not a fan of Apple, I do appreciate his profound impact on this industry.
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by j_col 15y ago
webOS is based on Linux, only tailored beautifully for a finger/touch based interface, so why bother replacing it with a variant of Linux that is not?
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by j_col 15y ago
We have this already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916374
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by j_col 15y ago
They're back now. Hearthy congratulations to the lads at Echo Libre here in Dublin by the way! http://echolibre.com/
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by j_col 15y ago
Wow, looks like the news brought down the site? http://orchestra.io/
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by j_col 15y ago
We've had this already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2907664
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by j_col 15y ago
Up-voting because I'm assuming you're being ironic ;-)
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by j_col 15y ago
Wow, looks like the Mac fans got me. Resistance really is futile...
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by j_col 15y ago
Resistance is futile
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by j_col 15y ago
No, not fine. Found it via Twitter and thought I would share.
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by j_col 15y ago
If people want to spend their time porting Android to Touchpad, then good luck to them. My point was that webOS is the best thing about the Touchpad, not the hardware (except maybe the Beats Audio speaker system), so why would I replace
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Video: HP Employee Strikes Back(precentral.net)
4 points by j_col 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
Sorry guys but I just don't see the point. The issue with the Touchpad was the hardware, not the OS. A Touchpad with Android installed is a pretty poor prospect, frankly there are better Android tablets out there. I'm buying a Touchpad
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by j_col 15y ago
Well, they have now created a potentially viable user base by putting hundreds of thousands of webOS devices in people's hands, who would have otherwise ignored platform. My feeling on this is that their gamble might lead to something inte
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by j_col 15y ago
Brilliant! Given my sadness today around HP destroying the mobile platform I love (webOS), this has really cheered me up ;-) I especially like the cheerio() function.
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by j_col 15y ago
Not supprising, as on the face of it, it looks like utter madness.
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by j_col 15y ago
Maybe it is from all of them web masters Rick-rolling their wayward search bot.
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by j_col 15y ago
Printers? Software?
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by j_col 15y ago
Speaking as someone who ordered one within Europe as soon as it was released directly from Europe, I'm frankly disgusted by this news and disgusted with the execs at HP. Will never buy one of their products again.
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by j_col 15y ago
Hmmm, the Touchpad doesn’t have tabs in its browser, it opens up a new browser card which is an entirely different experience, so I’m not sure how you could have carried out this test?
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by j_col 15y ago
I think if I was dumb enough to leave display_error on in production, I'd have a bigger problem with crackers being able to figure out sensitive details about my system from said error messages than worrying about them injecting scripts int
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by j_col 15y ago
Maybe someone left on auto-update and the server restarted after a hotfix? (sorry, cheap shot I know)
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by j_col 15y ago
The same thing they should do anywhere else, and this has not changed since the days of building cathedrals from stone: 1. Design. 2. Supporting the implementation effort of the design. 3. Governance, i.e. making sure that what was designed
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by j_col 15y ago
Yes I totally agree, only one chance to make a first impression and all that.
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by j_col 15y ago
webOS out of the box will auto-update itself over the air to 3.0.2. It just wasn't available when the reviews were written. If I read a review now, it's based on outdated information.
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by j_col 15y ago
If you apply the 3.0.2 patch (an over the air update), it resolves most of the performance issues with webOS on the tablet. Unfortunately all of the online reviews were done using 3.0, so the misconception that webOS on the Touchpad = slow
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by j_col 15y ago
Lots of discussion about this over on Precental.net about this today: http://www.precentral.net/hp-touchpad-selling-poorly-best-bu...

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