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Re:Microsoft courts webOS developers; 1,000 make the leap by pagekalisedown on Monday August 22, 2011 @05:47PM (#2914268)
There's a lot of costs attached to developing for a platform. Hardware is generally a small fraction of it.
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Re:Microsoft courts webOS developers; 1,000 make the leap by r00fus on Monday August 22, 2011 @06:06PM (#2914340)
True, but in this case, the platform in question (WebOS) is disintegrating... someone offers you safe sanctuary while you reconsider your options... why not?

It will be interesting to see what comes of this.

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Re:Microsoft courts webOS developers; 1,000 make the leap by rbanffy on Monday August 22, 2011 @10:22PM (#2915072)
> why not?

Why tie resources to develop for WP7 and not invest in iOS and Android? Most probably, Palm developers were either already investing in the two market leaders and porting to WebOS or going with WebOS just for fun (it is fun to write code for WebOS)

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