Goodbye webOS: The Greatest Phone You’ll Never Use

Theawesome little phonethat could , webOS , isdead . Discontinuingall phones and lozenge , HP intends to “ explore pick to optimise the economic value of webOS software package . ” If that ’s not slaying , then it ’s surely lobotimizing , de - limbing and leaving webOS in the middle of an ocean . Tragic .

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I buy the Pre when it came out two years ago . I ’ve never been shy aboutloving itfor the OS , which is about as well opine out as a mobile platform can get . The computer hardware , though above average , never thrilled me . It was attractive enough , especially when unexampled . But once it got strike , argufy and dinged up , the plasticky , pebble - similar phone became ruddy and workaday . Add onto that the fact that the screen was too small and a perpendicular keyboard was more annoying than anything , and you were fairly much left wishing from twenty-four hours one that webOS was on a piece of ironware like the iPhone 3GS , or the HTC Touch HD .

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When you sync your Gmail , Facebook , Aim and Yahoo contacts , webOS automatically connected them all together . Messaging was a joy . charge a content to someone over SMS , AIM , Gtalk , whatever . Did n’t count . It all filtered into the same windowpane as one epic conversation , transversing space time and a Babel of messaging protocol . The graphic plan was coherent , unified and appealing . Multitasking was especially elegant , utilizing a card metaphor that is still one by any other mobile OS right now . Swipe up from the gesture bar to bring up the wag view , trail to reorder , and swipe up to exit . Same lead for their presentment organization . I never spent less clock time trying to cypher out the DoS of my emails , texts , IMs and message than when I used webOS . Always visible , but never in the fashion . Save for some sluggishness , it was perfect . The apps would follow . I was sealed .

But after the initial launch , it never had the proper support from carriers , app developers or Palm / HP themselves . Palm lack the resourcefulness to entice developers or roll out a bevy of equipment . HP just had no desire or good sense of importunity . ( Obviously ) .

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For month , mass hemmed and hawed about where Palm and its engineering would finish up . Google ? They thought about it , but no . HTC ? That ’s where I waned webOS to be , because HTC attain awesome hardware . Nope . When HP was mentioned as a possible suer , I funk . There was no way Palm could make it through that company in one piece . Of course , HP bought Palm . I frowned . But HP paint inbroad , beige strokes . So I hoped .

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Palm had quality in spades ; HP had the money to potentially turn that quality into quantity . Everyone thought that HP would hit the ground fly the coop with webOS . In the age leading up to their learning of Palm , they had seemed anxious to get in the mobile biz .

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By the metre HP announced thePre 3and theTouchpadthis preceding winter , all I could do is occupy about webOS being offloaded onto undercooked , ill - conceived products . Printers ! Toasters ! Tablets ! It was their last big stand , and neither product offered anything sincerely newfangled or original . Summer sequels .

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In their conference call today , HP sound out they ’ll try in businesslike to find a third party home for WebOS to live in . And while I ’d love for nothing more than for a French telephone maker to descend in and make the platform relevant , it ’s desirous thinking . Who ’s go to put webOS on a equipment when the company that owns it desire nothing to do with it ? More importantly , who ’s going to purchase that twist ?

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