Comments on: Is the Market too Crowded for webOS to be Successful? http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jergreen http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-96380 Jergreen Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:18:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-96380 My guess is that the market for mobile OSs will turn out to be a duopoly like the market for desktrop OSs.

]]> By: Jergreen http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-96381 Jergreen Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:18:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-96381 My guess is that the market for mobile OSs will turn out to be a duopoly like the market for desktrop OSs.

]]> By: Poop http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-95471 Poop Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:01:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-95471 There is little hope for success for WebOS if it fails to attract makers other than HP. I just dont see app developers jumping on this closed platform. – with 5,000 apps it cannot complete with gogol and apple

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-95184 Anonymous Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:59:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-95184 Palm pre was never properly advertised and distributed in Asia. They need to work on that.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-95185 Anonymous Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:59:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-95185 Palm pre was never properly advertised and distributed in Asia. They need to work on that.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-95186 Anonymous Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:59:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-95186 Palm pre was never properly advertised and distributed in Asia. They need to work on that.

]]> By: Daniel Gomes http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-95178 Daniel Gomes Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:17:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-95178 HP and webOS definitely have a great opportunity at taking a sizeable chunk of the smartphone business. I’ve never used or even seen a webOS device in the flesh, yet I’m planning to buy a Pre 3 when it’s availalable, and even a TouchPad if I can afford it.

webOS has been voted best mobile OS by Laptop magazine readers and I think the only thing that has held it back was hardware and lack of funding.

Now with HP owning Palm and hardware that finally matches the OS, webOS should shine. If HP manage to integrate it into pc’s too, then it will actually become quite dominant worldwide.

]]> By: Stanley http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-94336 Stanley Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:15:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-94336 HP’s webOS and RIM’s QNX-based PlayBook look like brilliantly designed, innovative systems. But Google’s Android will eventually clone passible concepts derived from them, eroding that differentiation.

]]> By: James Dedon http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-94310 James Dedon Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-94310 I’m really hoping that all these competing products think that they will be able to garner enough of the market to validate having their own apps and apis. Apple pulled it off because they were the first to the party and they had no choice. Android is still struggling to meet the iOS app stores offerings. RIM has now released that the Playbook will run Android apps. I think that HP would be smart to work this into their business model.

Applications are the selling point. People ask, “can I use Evernote and Dropbox (or insert app name here)?” If the answer is no, then forget it. I really don’t think the average consumer cares about the OS so long as it allows him or her to do the things they want.

If HP has a kick ass OS, then by all means bring it to market, but if they’re gonna limit it by using only their own APIs, it’s not gonna work. It would be nice to see everything develop around a FOSS API model (Android Apps [although I don't know if the API is FOSS]). Is interoperability too much to ask?

]]> By: James Dedon http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-94311 James Dedon Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-94311 I’m really hoping that all these competing products think that they will be able to garner enough of the market to validate having their own apps and apis. Apple pulled it off because they were the first to the party and they had no choice. Android is still struggling to meet the iOS app stores offerings. RIM has now released that the Playbook will run Android apps. I think that HP would be smart to work this into their business model.

Applications are the selling point. People ask, “can I use Evernote and Dropbox (or insert app name here)?” If the answer is no, then forget it. I really don’t think the average consumer cares about the OS so long as it allows him or her to do the things they want.

If HP has a kick ass OS, then by all means bring it to market, but if they’re gonna limit it by using only their own APIs, it’s not gonna work. It would be nice to see everything develop around a FOSS API model (Android Apps [although I don't know if the API is FOSS]). Is interoperability too much to ask?

]]> By: Gary Wilkinson http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-94087 Gary Wilkinson Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:45:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-94087 I think Apple are making enough money to ignore that (ever increasing) percentage.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-93855 Anonymous Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:51:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-93855 HP TouchPad is the best tablet in my opinion. because it looks the best and specs are wonderful and the OS is the best of all

]]> By: Ben Bajarin http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-93819 Ben Bajarin Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:51:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-93819 I totally 100% agree. Just don’t see it happening.

]]> By: HP needs to license webOS http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-93817 HP needs to license webOS Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:35:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-93817 A market expanding doesn’t necessarily mean there is room for another hardware-os combination. All we have to do is look back at Windows adoption to see why. The hardware manufacturers dictate what OS will dominate and the only way a OS can dominate an entire market is if it’s licensed to multiple hardware manufacturers, and there only ones doing that are Android and WP7, and WP7 doesn’t seem to be catching on against a FOSS Android OS. Therefore, developers follow platform growth.

If HP really wants webOS to succeed I believe they will need to license it to other hardware manufacturers–sorry, two phones & one table aren’t going to cut it. People like choice in the hardware they purchase and that only comes when the OS is widely licensed and the hardware companies are the ones advertising the products to the end users. . . . As Bill Gates told Apple years ago, please license your OS it will dominate the market in no time, but Apple didn’t and where is the Mac OS now? ~5%. Because Bill Gates understood that the OS must be free from the hardware company and licensed to all.

]]> By: Larry http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-93816 Larry Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:31:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-93816 What makes ios and android so successful are all the apps available on those platforms. I can’t imagine many developers creating an app for ios, android,wp7, blackberry, meego, and webos. This is just too much. Just imagine this in the pc world, so many different os along with different versions of the same os would really suck for the consumers

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-93807 Anonymous Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:17:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-93807 It’ll be hard, look how WP7 and Kin both flopped :(

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/is-the-market-too-crowded-for-webos-to-be-successful-10132563/#comment-93808 Anonymous Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:17:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=132563#comment-93808 It’ll be hard, look how WP7 and Kin both flopped :(

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