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Re:Why HP Fell by maxsilver on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:53AM (#17799853)
I agree that WebOS was great and ahead of it's time, and agree with almost all of the above.

But just for clarity: HP sold webOS to LG (not Samsung), and it (mostly) kept it's webOS name through various aquisitions and rebrandings. See http://www.lg.com/us/experience-tvs/smart-tv-features and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS#History

Samsung's Tizen is it's own thing -- not some acquisition or rebranding of webOS.

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Re:Why HP Fell by yardie on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:23AM (#17800119)
Wow it didn’t realize that and you are correct. Was using a SmartTV and the interface felt awefully close to WebOS that I thought it was a derivative.
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