Thursday, December 22, 2011

WebOS? Can it live on?

Ok before I begin this guys. I usually use facts for my blogs. Today this is all opinion. Maybe ill have a fact here and there. But this one is strictly opinion based and what I think of WebOS, and the moves they've made in recent months. I This post will be directly what i think about the os and what moves i feel needs to be made to bring them back to the Brink.

Now a few months back, I'm not sure how many, HP released what what it thought would make its stamp in the field of tablets...Then something went awry, webOS was shutdown, and HP decided to fire sale all Of these new Devices Codenamed the TouchPad. I remember saying this, and i should've youtubed myself saying this, "in two weeks someone will have this rooted using Android"...Fast forward to that friday 2 weeks from when i said this..Click your way over to Ebay, and some quick witted soul was turning his 99 dollar investment into a 200 dollar profit. Now i speak on the TouchPad in Excess because Hp had Invested time into this device and the Pre3, but someone pulled the plug on WebOS and these devices were left in the cold.

Now fast forward to as few weeks ago HP made announcments of reviving WebOS, and making it Open sourced, which i absolutely love this idea. They also Provided another fire sale on TouchPads and even released a much needed firmware update for WebOS. Is WebOS out of the deep? Not quite yet, what iI feel is that they need to ship the system to a top tier developer. If I were Hp i'd shop it out to Microsoft, If they don't bite i begin looking to great 3rd party developers...If im correct i read a few days ago that a brain behind Cyanogenmod that happened to be contracted to Samsung to help build the new life of Touchwiz...Now wouldn't it seem almost dead on to ship the Source Code exclusively to the Cyanogenmod team? A team that have Revolutionized the open source known as android...Now doesn't it seem like an amazing thought to ship the code to a team that builds amazing options for Operating systems? I can see cyanogenmod, breaking down the code, Stripping it to it core and finding what separates it from other operating systems, not only would it revive WebOS but it would assist the cyanogenmod team as Top tier developers, they would go from the android solution...To the savior of webOS.

Now in closing i want to say these are all opinions, and ideas for Hp and WebOS...I know nobody important will read this, but if i were a big wig over in WebOS I would ship the code to small development teams that are known to consumers. And take my defibrilator to the heart of the OS...

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