LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
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Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
#2It's hard to imagine a worse ending to the WebOS software.
Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
#3It's hard to imagine a worse ending to the WebOS software.
The worst ending (darkest timeline?) would be WebOS not getting used for anything at all.
I'm curious to see if it will stay open-source. At this point, though, Firefox OS has much more mindshare as a full-stack mobile web OS anyway.
Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
#4The thing I liked most about WebOS?
Gestures and its card system.
I cannot imagine how that translates to a TV.
Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
#5I have difficult to see what advantage webOS has on a TV. With no touch (?) they need to completely redesign the interface anyway.
Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
#6How this affects the Enyo and Open webOS projects? Is it affecting them at all?
Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
#7It's hard to imagine a worse ending to the WebOS software.
The worst ending (darkest timeline?) would be WebOS not getting used for anything at all. I'm curious to see if it will stay open-source. At this point, though, Firefox OS has much more mindshare as a full-stack mobile web OS anyway.
Opera also has its own product for smart TVs and set top boxes, but not quite a full fledged mobile OS.
Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
#8The thing I liked most about WebOS? Gestures and its card system. I cannot imagine how that translates to a TV.
Perhaps a remote with a touch pad for gestures?
Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
#9How this affects the Enyo and Open webOS projects? Is it affecting them at all?
I was wondering the exact same thing. I guess it's very likely LG abandons the open version of it though.
Re: LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
#10I wonder if any attempt at reinventing TV will achieve a mainstream success (I mean a legacy TV scale success). Up until today all such attempts attracted a relatively small group of customers and a popular opinion is that TV is bound to die.