Tag Archives: webOS

What HP did next

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Andrew

The always awesome Terence Eden writes about HP’s smartphone conundrum; he makes some excellent points and I recommend you go and read it. Read it now. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Ok, welcome back. There are a couple of things I’d … Continue reading →

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BlackBerry WebWorks

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Andrew

Based on today’s upcoming Hackathon I’m investigating WebWorks (not WebWorks (with annoying voice popup!) or WebWorks). These are rough, quick notes in the spirit of “publish early and often”. So far I’ve downloaded Ripple (the emulator), the smartphone and tablet SDK. … Continue reading →

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WebOS Open Source

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Andrew

There’s lots of noise out there about WebOS being open source. Everything from “WebOS is dead” to “WebOS is saved!” – but what is really going on? Why did Meg make this move now? Thinking about it, this move makes … Continue reading →

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The HP WebOS debacle

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Andrew

There’s lots of good writing about HP’s decision yesterday to kill WebOS devices. Ewan writes about why HP killed WebOS, and I especially agree with this bit: I’m embarrassed that a company with revenues of one hundred and twenty-six BILLION … Continue reading →

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The Lonesome Success of WebOS

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Andrew

In an overly dramatic article on Techcrunch, John Biggs talks about “The Lonesome Death of WebOS“. He cites some seemingly-poor sales of TouchPads through Woot, just 612 versus 2,288 for the Motorola Xoom. He then goes on to talk about … Continue reading →

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The HP TouchPad

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Andrew

Today is the official launch day of the HP TouchPad in the UK. There’s some great write-ups by Ian Beck (who also wrote the app TapNote), Zhephree (Foursquare for WebOS), Shawn Blanc (“the TouchPad is less than the sum of its parts“), … Continue reading →

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Mean Time to Hello World

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Andrew

One simple metric every development platform could and should be judged on is “mean time to hello world” – how long it takes developers to track down links to basic tutorials on building and deploying the most simple of apps … Continue reading →

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How big is your SDK?

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Andrew

Here’s a little chart that’s part of something bigger I’ve been working on: It shows the relative sizes (in MB) of the various mobile phone platform SDKs. It’s possibly available elsewhere, but as I’ve been playing around with the various … Continue reading →

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