Comments on: What LG’s webOS buy means for Google TV http://gigaom.com/2013/02/25/lg-webos-smart-tv/ Mon, 20 May 2013 11:44:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew http://gigaom.com/2013/02/25/lg-webos-smart-tv/#comment-1316536 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:54:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=613874#comment-1316536 I agree, Web OS is a wonderful operating system to use and its abilitiy to fuse together social networks and contacts with notifications will work well for tv, I wonder how much of the original interface will remain such as cards and how it will be controlled, iOS/android app? touch device or traditional controller. The potential is very strong! Hp failed on the hardware and pricing structure but the operating system is still my favourite to use between ios android and web os. Looking forward to seeing it, must hold off that purchase of new big screen until next year now :-)

]]> By: john http://gigaom.com/2013/02/25/lg-webos-smart-tv/#comment-1316153 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:55:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=613874#comment-1316153 The last paragraph is missing a verb

]]> By: virtualCable TV http://gigaom.com/2013/02/25/lg-webos-smart-tv/#comment-1315910 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:18:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=613874#comment-1315910 In an old blog I had links to Intel Developers Portal and I distinctly remember Intel’s Eric Kin and Yahoo being first to announce Yahoo Connected TV.

Now if I remember correctly Netcast was nothing more than an LG brand name for Yahoo’s Connected TV widget framework.

Anybody that has been involved in connected TV development knows Yahoo pioneered but then threw it all away by refusing to support a browser and by the big time most stupid assinine move of all time attempting to compel Windows and Mac developers to migrate to Linux.

webOS on the other hand had a lot of respect by developers but simply got lost in the fray of the iOS mania followed by the appearance of Android. I think this is a good move for LG and as a developer myself I will be anxious to learn what I can do with webOS.

If LG supports all of the W3C standards for HTML5 development they have a chance to really become a top contender.

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