Comments on: Amazon, Samsung, HTC… who’ll be webOS’ new suitor?

By: Richard Yeh

Richard Yeh — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:35:00 +0000

Facebook will buy webOS. They’re not going to play second fiddle to Google.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:51:00 +0000

BeOS is dead? oh no, no more upgrades for me.

By: Igrar

Igrar — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:18:00 +0000

I pray webOS not vanish, believe me it is the most intuitive and elegant mobile os with bunch of functions which other mobile OSs lack. I am craving for Samsung or HTC WebOS device

By: Alexander Cardosa

Alexander Cardosa — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:04:00 +0000

Plus why spend that kind of money for low ROI.

By: Alexander Cardosa

Alexander Cardosa — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:04:00 +0000

Plus why spend that kind of money for low ROI.

By: infinity

infinity — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:22:00 +0000

HP’s mistake was to market the touchpad as an IPad killer. They should have just called it a business tablet device because that’s what it is and it performs very well as such.
Any company that takes up webos can easily create a niche for itself among businesses and academics, etc…

By: Robert Norris Hills

Robert Norris Hills — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:09:00 +0000

This time next year everyone is going to be like “whats webOS?”

By: Alexander Cardosa

Alexander Cardosa — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:03:00 +0000

ROFLMAO

By: Vinodkumar Kn

Vinodkumar Kn — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:21:00 +0000

If Samsung acquire WebOS, then Apple will be history.

By: ReVeLaTeD

ReVeLaTeD — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:07:00 +0000

Oh my. If Amazon takes webOS…it’s ballgame.

By: ReVeLaTeD

ReVeLaTeD — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:07:00 +0000

Oh my. If Amazon takes webOS…it’s ballgame.

By: Prajawal Subba

Prajawal Subba — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:15:00 +0000

samsung ftw!

By: plunder

plunder — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:27:00 +0000

FOR SALE – one “slightly” abused operating system.

Apply to view, after dark, behind a slightly grubby truck with the HP logo hastily covered with Duck Tape. I think the edgy chap with dark glasses is Stephen DW, but he denies it. Mr A remains in the cab holding a baseball bat and a copy of Software Development for Dummies.

Make sure you test it. They may have mixed in some powdered Android dust to make it look better.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:13:00 +0000

Noone, because it is a terrible OS. It’d be a waste of time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:55:00 +0000

Not Samsung. They’ve got their hands full with Android and Bada and are doing fine. Bada just needs more refinement before it’s ready for primetime in the US.

By: steven_spaceman

steven_spaceman — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:33:00 +0000

Android isn’t ‘tied to hardware now’.

Google needs hardware to develop Android better, tight partnership with its partners is one thing, and in-house hardware to develop and test so HUGE OS (#1 in the US, #1 worldwide) is another thing. webOS hasn’t apps and will NOT be an instant interesting proposal. Android is selling like hot cakes, nobody will consider wp7 or webOS if they have SUCCESSFUL powerful option to produce smart devices NOW.

Amazon doesn’t need webOS at all.
SAMSUNG doesn’t need webOS, because it’ll become a NOKIA with its OS-mess.
HTC could be interested in webOS but ONLY if it can make ALL Android apps and Google services work on this ‘investment’. Or it will be a wasted money.

Nobody STANDS behind webOS, Google stands behind Android. Android vendors are also Open Handset Alliance partners, Android is an enormously large open-source project.

NOBODY will throw away hot cakes (and Ice Cream Sandwiches)))) to focus on almost dead brand, if there will not be some kind of incredible OS development/synergy opportunity to explore.

By: Robert Mahon

Robert Mahon — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:47:00 +0000

Amazon releasing a WebOS appears unusual without a ready made app ecosystem that I suspect doesn’t exist. And how many devs are going to want to jump on a platform that simply doesn’t work in retail? (though I still think the price of these tablets is still high at 500+ bucks. Asus Transformers were sold out at 299 with vouchers).