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"Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS"
Reply to: by EWedel
Speaking of the ecosystem, one of the things which really hurt webOS imo was when they dropped support for running PalmOS apps (in webOS 2.0 iirc). That was their ecosystem right there: a legion of fanatically loyal users (myself included) and the ability to slowly bring up a new set of “pure” apps while still using your existing PalmOS apps on a much newer platform.
That and dropping USB hotsync — though the insanity of the development process described here helps to explain why they didn’t try to maintain it in parallel along with synergy, as would otherwise have been sensible (imo).
Meanwhile I’ve a couple of Treo 680s sitting in a drawer – really enjoyed using them (with TealOS :-) but got tired of not having a browser that would work with a significant fraction of websites.
As others have pointed out, the success of webOS will hinge on whether it is offered a robust hardware platform (personally, I love the hardware of my T-Mobile G2, but that’s me ;-). While I hope for it, I’m surely not counting on it.
Reply to: by EWedel
Speaking of the ecosystem, one of the things which really hurt webOS imo was when they dropped support for running PalmOS apps (in webOS 2.0 iirc). That was their ecosystem right there: a legion of fanatically loyal users (myself included) and the ability to slowly bring up a new set of “pure” apps while still using your existing PalmOS apps on a much newer platform.
That and dropping USB hotsync — though the insanity of the development process described here helps to explain why they didn’t try to maintain it in parallel along with synergy, as would otherwise have been sensible (imo).
Meanwhile I’ve a couple of Treo 680s sitting in a drawer – really enjoyed using them (with TealOS :-) but got tired of not having a browser that would work with a significant fraction of websites.
As others have pointed out, the success of webOS will hinge on whether it is offered a robust hardware platform (personally, I love the hardware of my T-Mobile G2, but that’s me ;-). While I hope for it, I’m surely not counting on it.