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By now, we all know the sad story of webOS and how it has one last, slim chance at being successful but that’s not stopping former Palm and HP employees from discussing what went wrong with the innovative platform. Not surprisingly, we have multiple accounts which place the blame on different things. The New York…
According to Venture Beat, HP tried to sell webOS and Palm, but couldn’t find a buyer willing to pay HP’s exorbitant asking price of $1.2 billion. HP apparently wanted to reduce its losses by selling Palm at the same price it paid for the company back in 2010. This value might be reasonable if HP…
Remember the 7-inch TouchPad Go? Well, this was supposed to be the more portable version of the webOS tablet but HP decided that webOS wasn’t worth the effort. Well, our friends at webOS Nation got a hold of the TouchPad Go and offer a nice review in video form. I’ll let you watch the very…
In June I talked about two reasons why HP and Amazon should team-up to drive webOS forward. Now that webOS is an open-source project, I decided to re-think the idea and simply put – I like it even more today. The two reasons In mentioned in June were: Amazon Appstore – there’s no good reason…
Earlier today , HP said the webOS platform will be release to the open source community with HP at the helm. The Verge sat down with HP’s Meg Whitman and Board Member Marc Andreessen to find out what these changes mean for HP. Whitman stunned the tech world when she confirmed to The Verge that…
After months of webOS twisting in the wind, HP has reportedly finalized its plans for the elegant mobile operating system. HP will keep webOS but submit it to an open source community so that other handset makers and tinkerers can use it. In a press release, HP said its goals for the open source move…
One of the saddest stories in the world of technology is that of webOS. The mobile platform had such promise when Palm introduced it in January 2009. Now almost three years later, HP is selling the remaining devices in a rock-bottom, one-day auction on eBay. HP announced to employees that it is selling off its remaining inventory…
HP CEO Meg Whitman said a final decision will be made on what the company will do with webOS within the next two weeks. This won’t be like the last time she said they’ll make a decision on webOS, I’m guessing. Asked by a French newspaper about when the company will make a decision on…
NPD has concluded in a recent study that the TouchPad, HP’s last webOS product for the foreseeable future, turned out to be the second-most popular tablet in the U.S. so far this year. While it might seem crazy that a dead platform managed to beat out a dearth of Android competition (namely from Samsung), the…
Hp announced its fourth quarter earnings today and, while the company is doing ok, webOS is at death’s door. In the full report, webOS was mentioned 25 times and each mention was about the loss the company incurred from “the wind down of HP’s webOS device business.” It’s the sad story of a platform that…