It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad

Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by MrScruff on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:00PM (#2901324)

Courier was a concept video, not a product. There's a significant difference.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by wallflower on Thursday August 18, 2011 @11:09PM (#2902074)

If you haven't read this, this is a short article on what Apple does so differently than almost all of its competitors - never announce something before it is shippable (e.g. production-qualified and vetted, supply chain and all)

http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by r00fus on Thursday August 18, 2011 @11:36PM (#2902123)

I bet Apple threw away a dozen such concepts prior to designing the iPad, launching the iPhone (and subsequently iPad).

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by AshMokhberi on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:27PM (#2901406)

I remember reading somewhere during the post mortem that they did actually go some ways to start building it.

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