Smartphone Wars: Will Android and iOS Continue to Dominate?PCWorld - Ginny Mies - Aug 19, 2011HP announced Thursday that it will discontinue its WebOS line of devices, which includes the HP Veer 4G, the HP Touchpad tablet and the yet-to-be-released HP Pre 3 smartphone. With the iPhone and Android ... |
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HP's WebOS Failure Proves It's Hard to Be Like AppleTIME - Jared Newman - Aug 19, 2011With HP's decision to stop making WebOS phones and tablets, one thing is painfully clear: Being like Apple is tougher than it looks. Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously said that his company "creates the whole widget," from ... |
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HP's WebOS Is Now a Competitive Advantage Waiting to HappenPCWorld (blog) - Katherine Noyes - Aug 19, 2011There's no denying that HP's abrupt decision to discontinue WebOS tablets and phones is a blow to consumer choice and the mobile arena in general. With WebOS out of the picture I believe there are really just two competitors ... |
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Farewell webOS from an early adopterComputerworld (blog) - Sharon Machlis - Aug 19, 2011I ended up with a webOS phone partly for hardware reasons: If you wanted a smartphone with physical keyboard in 2009, there weren't a whole lot of options. BlackBerry involved paying extra for data-plan options I didn't need; ... |
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Okay HP, Let's Make Some LemonadeWashington Post - Aug 19, 2011By TechCrunch.com, After spending $1.2 billion to acquire Palm, they announced that they were killing off the development of all smartphones and tablets running Palm's webOS platform â€" including the just launched TouchPad. Having survived for just 49 ... |
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Is The Carcass Of Palm Worth More Than $1.2 Billion Today? (HPQ, GOOG, MMI ...San Francisco Chronicle - Jay Yarow - Aug 18, 2011HP could try and license WebOS, but who would want it? It failed for Palm, and it failed for HP. If they can't get to work, can HTC, or Samsung? Plus, who would pay for the OS? HP isn't an ad company like Google, so it can't give away WebOS. ... |
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If HP spins off webOS group, HTC should buy itZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - Aug 18, 2011Summary: If HP spins off its PC group along with the webOS bunch, phone maker HTC would be a great fit to pick up the phone/tablet business. This week may go down as the strangest week in tech given the ... |
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HTC Not Developing Own Smartphone OS; Reiterates Support for Android [HTC CEO ...TFTS (blog) - 22 Aug, 2011Android smartphone manufacturers voiced out their support for Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, which is seen as a move to strengthen Android, in the light of attacks from different directions. Now, HTC has reiterated its support, ... |
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HTC should take up HP's webOS torchZDNet Australia - Luke Hopewell - 22 Aug, 2011HP's Leo Apotheker said on a conference call in the US last week that the company would discontinue its webOS devices, including the TouchPad. Apotheker said in a question-and-answer session following the announcement call overnight that HP hasn't ... |
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Will LG buy webOS from HP?The Fonecast - Mark Bridge - 22 Aug, 2011Google and Motorola. HP and webOS. Each apparently heading in opposite directions when it comes to strategy. However, although HP has pretty much pulled the plug on making webOS devices, it's not calling time on the webOS platform (which, ... |
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The Lonely Life of WebOSTechNewsWorld - Paul Hartsock - Aug 20, 2011HP has cut development of webOS hardware like the Pre and TouchPad, effectively taking away the only home the mobile operating system has. With nothing else to run on and no other companies using it, the OS will linger on ice unless ... |
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Will Android, iOS continue to rule the mobile market?ITvoir - Aug 20, 2011HP has decided to cease its WebOS operations. This clearly indicates that iPhone and Android based phones are the real dominators leaving hardly any room for other operating system. HP tried all attempts to save the downfall of WebOS phones. ... |
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Is Apple's in-house method the best way for Android? Look at webOSToday's iPhone - Cam Bunton - Aug 19, 2011Vertical integration is a term most tech enthusiasts will immediately recognize as being very Apple flavored. Hardware and software are both created by Jobs' company and he reaps the benefits of ... |
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Where did webOS go wrong?Tecca - Mike Wehner - Aug 19, 2011When the Palm Pre smartphone first introduced us to the webOS operating system in June of 2009, many felt that it had a bright future ahead of it. Apple's iPhone was selling hand over fist, ... |
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HP WebOS: Only room for two at the topStark Insider - Clinton Stark - Aug 19, 2011Sure, WebOS is (was) slick. Yet again, though, we learn that products and features do not win the day. by Clinton Stark on 08.19.11 | View Comments When I saw former Palm CEO, then HP WebOS ringmaster, Jon Rubinstein at a wireless tech event last ... |
The Death â€" and Possible Life â€" of HP's webOSIT Business Edge (blog) - Carl Weinschenk - Aug 19, 2011By date: People generally agree that HP's webOS is a good operating system. In this hyper-competitive environment, however, being good isn't good enough. Techies are like sports fans. They have their favorites and do not take bad news lightly. ... |
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Ex-Palm VP says HTC, LG, Sony Ericsson and Samsung should be hiring webOS staffPocket Gamer.Biz - Jon Jordan - Aug 19, 2011Former Palm executive Michael Mace has an opinion. He's just blogged about it under the title; 'The Part of Palm that Smartphone Companies Should be Bidding For'. "If you believe that every smartphone company needs to own its own OS, ... |
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OS Watch: Who Wants WebOS?Light Reading - Aug 19, 2011Who wants webOS?: HP doesn't want to build the hardware for webOS, but it may have to convince someone else to, since it can't license a platform it's giving up on. The companies that are emerging as potential suitors for the operating system have ... |
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Selling webOS: The toughest job in the mobile industryFierceWireless - Mike Dano - Aug 19, 2011The following charts the top US wireless carriers in the second quarter of 2011 by subscriber base. The numbers are in, and it's time to make sense of the data. Wi-Fi networks are edging closer to becoming an extension of mobile networks through ... |
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HP dropping webOS hardware surprises industry retailersT3 - Luke Johnson - Aug 19, 2011HP's decision to cease production of all webOS hardware has come as a shock to industry retailers with online outlet Clove Technology telling T3 that sales of webOS devices “have been good.” The move, which came less than two months after the HP ... |
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Rumors of WebOS' death are greatly exaggeratedGeek.com - Russell Holly - Aug 19, 2011Thursday afternoon started for me as many often have recently, in a Google+ Hangout with colleagues discussing all of the news that has befallen the tech world this week. Then, silence washed over us as we all got the same message at the same time. ... |
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Abandoned HP webOS to hit HTC and Samsung devices?T3 - Luke Johnson - Aug 19, 2011HP's decision to stop producing hardware for the well received webOS operating system has come as a surprise to many within the tech industry with speculation now turning to a possible takeover of the smartphone and tablet operating system. ... |
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[Poll] Should Google Poach WebOS Designers and Developers?Phandroid.com - Quentyn Kennemer - Aug 19, 2011Well, it's Friday. We like to pick your brains on Fridays. This time, we're wondering what you think about the latest happenings over at the HP camp. If you haven't heard, HP has officially ... |
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Tech M&A: Google Buys Motorola, Time Warner Moves Into the Midwest, HP Buys ...Minyanville.com - Damian Thompson - Aug 19, 2011Google makes a big play to stay competitive with Apple in the mobile arena, cable firms consolidate, and HP moves into enterprise while cutting its losses on WebOS. A sleepy week in Technology M&A this week. ... |
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HP Should Open Source WebOSNetwork World - Alan Shimel - Aug 19, 2011After paying almost Two Billion Dollars for Palm and its WebOS, HP announced that it is exiting the mobile phone and tablet business yesterday. After dumping who knows how many more millions of dollars in ... |
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Amazon, Samsung, HTC… who'll be webOS' new suitor?SlashGear - Aug 19, 2011HP's decision to amputate its webOS hardware line and attempt to tourniquet the cash gush has left the platform's future in the air. The TouchPad and Pre lines may be dead in the water, but HP has made it clear that the company is “not walking away ... |
Will WebOS Come to End after HP killed WebOS Devices?SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) - Paula Cheung - Aug 19, 2011At the beginning of this year, the WebOS was highly regarded to shake up the Smartphone and tablet space of iOS and Android by the media, but now it once again shakes the world that HP will give up WebOS soon. For HP has killed the WebOS devices ... |
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Dear HP, Palm Wasn't A Magic WandOnlyGizmos (blog) - Aug 19, 2011If you landed here via the homepage, you would have heard it by now: HP Is done with its stint with WebOS / Palm. Last year when HP picked up Palm for $1.2 billion, it raised a hope and as well as fear amongst us. The potential was huge, ... |
RIP WebOS, the Best Smartphone Platform Nobody UsedPopular Science - Dan Nosowitz - Aug 18, 2011Today, in an almost insultingly brief statement in the middle of a press release about something else entirely, HP killed off its most recent acquisition, and perhaps its most beloved platform: ... |
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Goodbye webOS: The Greatest Phone You'll Never UseGizmodo - Aug 18, 2011The awesome little phone that could, webOS, is dead. Discontinuing all phones and tablets, HP intends to "explore options to optimize the value of webOS software." If that's not murder, then it's certainly lobotimizing, de-limbing and leaving webOS in ... |
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