Comments on: The Palm Is Dead. Long Live the WebOS. So What? http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/ Thu, 23 May 2013 22:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: What 44 Billion Mobile App Downloads by 2016 Means | My Cell Phone Site http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/#comment-620340 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:41:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296010#comment-620340 [...] which has much to like in terms of interface, usability and design, but has few apps. HP will face the same challenge with its TouchPad when it arrives in the next few months, as will any MeeGo devices, if they arrive at all. Building [...]

]]> By: What 44 Billion Mobile App Downloads by 2016 Means: Mobile Technology News « http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/#comment-620278 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:50:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296010#comment-620278 [...] which has much to like in terms of interface, usability and design, but has few apps. HP will face the same challenge with its TouchPad when it arrives in the next few months, as will any MeeGo devices, if they arrive at all. Building [...]

]]> By: Think HP’s Tablet Has No Chance? Watch This!: Mobile Technology News « http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/#comment-616447 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:22:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296010#comment-616447 [...] take on the video demo mirrors Om’s thoughts from when he took an early look at HP’s tablet efforts in February: In theory it seems to be one of the best competitors for the Apple iPad (I think Google’s [...]

]]> By: The Big Mobile and Desktop Platform Merge Is Underway: Mobile Technology News « http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/#comment-614362 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:34:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296010#comment-614362 [...] is already working towards it. Surprisingly, HP too is in the mix here as the company has already stated plans to ship Windows computers with the ability to run the webOS operating system before the end of 2011. Outside of those two players though, I haven’t seen many examples [...]

]]> By: HP Shifts Printing Away From PCs Via Google Cloud Print : Mobile Technology News « http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/#comment-613366 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:09:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296010#comment-613366 [...] to get into the mobile space, but that should be changing soon due to an updated webOS platform and a new HP tablet based on the operating system. When HP introduced the TouchPad slate, it noted that it would have wireless print capabilities [...]

]]> By: You — Not Your Competitors — Define Your Destiny: Tech News and Analysis « http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/#comment-600382 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:00:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296010#comment-600382 [...] take this year’s big news: tablets, or rather, rivals of Apple’s iPad. HP announced its WebOS-based TouchPad. Motorola announced Xoom, which is powered by Google’s Honeycomb tablet-oriented Android OS. [...]

]]> By: Apple Isn’t at MWC, But Apple is Everywhere at MWC: Apple News, Tips and Reviews « http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/#comment-592598 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:12:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296010#comment-592598 [...] you probably won’t find a more striking example of its influence than at HP’s booth. HP recently unveiled its TouchPad 10.1-inch tablet device, running webOS, which it acquired when it purchased Palm in 2010. At its unveiling last week, the [...]

]]> By: Stay Agile With Cross-platform Software Solutions: Online Collaboration « http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/#comment-592570 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:01:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296010#comment-592570 [...] platforms like iOS and Android for general computing tasks. And now that HP has announced that it will be bringing webOS to its computers as well as to its smartphone and tablet devices, it’s becoming clear that the foremost virtue for enterprise software going forward will be [...]

]]> By: Adobe Says Air And Flash Are Winning Over Developers: Tech News and Analysis « http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/#comment-592332 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:07:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296010#comment-592332 [...] an army of tablets running Android and credible iPad challengers in the BlackBerry Playbook and HP TouchPad, which will largely support Adobe runtimes, Adobe thinks it’s in a good place to benefit from [...]

]]> By: Paul Calento http://gigaom.com/2011/02/09/the-palm-is-dead-long-live-the-webos-so-what/#comment-592229 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:22:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296010#comment-592229 For native apps, I’d agree that the WebOS is a hard-sell to enterprise IT … but the device offers a somewhat unique cloud orientation (provided everyone else doesn’t catch up) and a solid, existing enterprise customer base (for almost everything except phones, tablets).

With the cloud and client virt, aren’t we moving towards a world of device agnostic apps … and, as a result, device-agnostic organizations?

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