LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform • Hacker News Board

Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform

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Post by moondowner » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 9:27 AM UTC

unwiredben wrote: post #65

moondowner wrote: post #6

How this affects the Enyo and Open webOS projects? Is it affecting them at all?

Both the HP and LG press releases say "LG will assume stewardship of the open source projects of Open WebOS and Enyo." I'm the Enyo tech lead and I've got an offer from LG.

Hope you guys continue the good work! :)

Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform

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Post by unwiredben » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 9:57 AM UTC

mcbridematt wrote: post #70

mikecane wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hang on. That's not true. At one time the ELSE phone was hyped. http://youtu.be/M4sVGR5uRhc It went nowhere, but at least it was something at one time.

Similarly the BeOS platform morphed into Palm OS 6 (Cobalt), which only ever appeared in sample quantities from a phone OEM. (This was well after Palm spun off their OS business, but before PalmSource was acquired by ACCESS)

...and then technology from Palm OS Cobalt, the Binder, migrated with engineers from that team to become part of the low-level system interface in Android.

Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform

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Post by penisremover » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

r4vik wrote: post #48

mattquiros wrote: post #44

But of all the hardware makers, LG? They make ugly products. Innovation is not really in their DNA. I wonder where this is going.

Nexus 4 is ugly?

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