You mentioned in a blog post a while ago that you had basic webos support working, what the chances of Corona supporting Webos in the future, according to this article there could be up to 1 million touchpads out there and it looks like HP are going to continue to support webos in the future.
There is also a massive lack of apps for the platform, particularly games, Corona devs could really do well out of it.
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I wish I could answer that in words that I heard from Carlos, but I am trying to upload the interview OZApps had with him on this topic, if you are patient, it should be up by the 7/8th of September
cheers,
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Wasn’t WebOS abandoned?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/hps-webos-touchpad-palm_n_931193.html [import]uid: 4596 topic_id: 14741 reply_id: 54649[/import]
@singh,
yes it was discontinued, but it is one of the most advanced OS available at the moment, if you own a touchpad, you will know.
Plus @cbarlett’s question was that there are over 1 million devices sold, so there is a substantial market that exists, even if people give these to the kids then there is a scope for educational apps, if they use it then games/business apps.
The point is a million users at $0.99 is nearly a million dollars worth of potential. Not to be seen lightly.
cheers,
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Hi,
No WebOS is not abandoned, although HP HAVE abandoned the manufacture of hardware for WebOS (and home computers etc), basically anything made by the Personal Systems Group of HP. WebOS itself is still supported and despite layoffs, still being developed.
It may be that the PSG will be spun off as a standalone company, and therefore have the possibility of producing hardware for WebOS once again. Or the OS could be licensed to other hardware manufacturers.
In any case, WebOS is now the second most deployed/purchased tablet OS (way behind apple) thanks to the HP firesale.
The WebOS community which is more committed than any other (read that as you wish), will be doings it’s level best to keep WebOS where it deserves to be. [import]uid: 92526 topic_id: 14741 reply_id: 56861[/import]
HP has not abandoned webOS or personal computers. They will stop making webOS devices themselves and evaluate if selling or spinning off PC business is lucrative for the shareholders. Whatever it is someone will continue to build HP computers. They will license webOS to other mobile manufactures. I agree with the posters above that webOS might be the best mobile OS the moment (sadly only the people who has a TouchPad knows this).
Technically, they didn’t specifically abandon building WebOS hardware either. They abandoned the whole hardware division which happened to have the current WebOS hardware on it’s list of products. I know someone on the WebOS development team, it’s very much still alive. Depending on how the recent executive shuffle pans out, the Palm software team will either get linked up to a new hardware team, possibly external, or the whole division will get sold to another company that wants an OS. There was talks with Samsung, but it looks like they’ve probably gone with Intel/Tizen. [import]uid: 93732 topic_id: 14741 reply_id: 58253[/import]
>> “They abandoned the whole hardware division which happened to have the current WebOS hardware on it’s list of products”
That’s not true, HP Personal Systems Group (who makes the PCs & mobile devices) is still there. HP is evaluating if they will spin off or sale that group. Not shutting down or abandoning. Only webOS devices are being discontinued. webOS software group moved to bigger software group and will stay alive (at least for now). [import]uid: 19297 topic_id: 14741 reply_id: 58256[/import]
It’s the Palm hardware division that got canned. At the time, that was just WebOS-related hardware. Future WebOS device manufacturing could be resumed from HP itself, or it could get outsourced–who knows, it’s really unclear right now. My point is; WebOS is definitely not dead–Palm is. [import]uid: 93732 topic_id: 14741 reply_id: 58259[/import]