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Welcome the decision. But a honest question - has there been any predecessors for a software succeeding after being open sourced from closed? I can think of Firefox but nothing else.
HTC in particular seems to be casting about for a way to stand out in a sea of Android handsets. I wonder if they'll be tempted? But getting webOS up to the level of ICS or iOS 5.0 is going to be a ton of work.
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> why didn't they embrace webOS before? Because they could not? The only way they could was to buy it from HP, and that costs money. > Or why aren't they pushing Windows Mobile? HTC has WP handsets out. > Or, if they want open, why not just fork Android like Amazon and Barnes and Noble? Are you seriously suggesting Barnes and Noble has more technical resources than HTC and Samsung? B&N customizes Android by cutting d…
> Because they could not? The only way they could was to buy it from HP, and that costs money. The money saved on software licensing isn't enough to make the difference if these companies were "desperate" for an alternative. As you pointed out HTC is making Windows Mobile handsets right now and it costs money. (Though again my point on HTC was they'd be pushing WP if they were desperate to get away from Android and t…
Google had the sole power to define what an "open" platform was and the rules in using it. Developers, telcos and HW companies now have a second option.
HP may not make a dime from this move, but if the move is cheap and it can cost the competition more to respond, then it is a move is well played.
Lastly, HP is a hardware/software/services company so this move will give it some leverage when dealing with large players in those areas.
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I really hope they manage to do that, and avoid the fragmentation that Android experienced, especially with multiple app stores and no centralised over-the-air update mechanism.
especially with multiple app stores I hope you're not seriously saying that having multiple app stores is a weakness of some kind.
https://github.com/hpwebos/webos/issues/1#issuecomment-30868...
> Meg's announcement was news to us in the webOS team as well. The HP executive team has been weighing a lot of options of late, but thanks for assuming all us in the trenches are that deeply "in the know", makes me feel warm and/or fuzzy. :)
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QNX is the underlying RTOS. Application UI is done in Adobe AIR, which is a dead platform. JS/HTML5 on top of QNX would capitalize on their strengths (more responsiveness over Android) and patch over their weaknesses.
> JS/HTML5 on top of QNX would capitalize on their strengths (more responsiveness over Android) and patch over their weaknesses. We're talking about RIM here, how would web technologies (a game they are still late at) "capitalize on their streights"? Let alone "patch over their weaknesses"?
Disclaimer: I am part of the WebKit team at RIM.
Hopefully BeOS will come along with it.
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And this is worth the tens of millions, if not hundreds, that they would have received for selling it?
Selling it to who, exactly?
Sounds like just a ploy to get discount/bribe from Microsoft to switch to Win8.
http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/28/hp-windows-8-tablets-arriving-...