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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by jessedhillon on Thursday August 18, 2011 @03:54PM (#2900796)
Coming from one of the suckers who bought a Palm Pre two years ago and is still using it (gotta love contracts!), I see nothing redeeming about WebOS. WebOS was Palm's Potemkin village -- a shallow attempt to convince a larger, dumber company that they were relevant enough to warrant a buyout, by creating the appearance of a technically impressive achievement.

Apart from technical merits, of which there are only a few and they are debatable, one of the values of an operating system is the commitment of the company behind it -- and with clowns like Palm and HP who stopped issuing updates only months after launch, I say fuck them and any carrier who allowed these pieces of shit to pass technical acceptance.

The only reason I've hung onto this thing for 2 years is because I'm determined to make this the phone that loses Sprint my business.

Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by rbanffy on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:15PM (#2900901)
I happen to own a Palm Pre 2 and I have a completely different perception. It's light, small and responsive and the way you use it, the just-type interface, the cards thing, is very natural.

It's really sad.

Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by runjake on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:30AM (#2905872)
You should try a more popular mobile OS that hasn't completely failed in the market, like WP7 ;)
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by rbanffy on Saturday August 20, 2011 @12:30PM (#2906972)
Not yet, but be patient. It will fail.
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by AppSec on Friday August 19, 2011 @11:16AM (#2903637)
It was the first mobile OS that handled running multiple applications in a crisp clean way. Notifications were done very well. These are two very key components. Combine that with a hardware keyboard and an easy/common development platform.

It was totally mismanaged.

I was thinking about the Pre3.. Now I'm stuck with the Android or switching carriers for an iPhone. Neither are pleasing choices.