Tag Archives: WebOS
Chrome OS a Perfect Candidate to Add onto Every PC
Posted on 10. Mar, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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I read with great interest the fact that HP has made the decision to add its WebOS platform to every PC that they manufacturer. As you may or may not know, WebOS is a project that came over from HP’s purchase of Palm. I’ve struggled to understand where WebOS, which is positioned in Chrome OS’s market, was going to fit in with HP’s overall strategy, but this move makes sense.
HP already owns WebOS, and they need to do something with it, lest they just let it die. Why not add it to every software image for each PC with the company’s logo? They aren’t losing anything by doing that since the cost of developing that operating system has already been spent for the most part.
Google should try to do the same thing with Chrome OS. The problem with that is the fact that there’s very little chance that Google will ever sell PCs with their logo; they have to convince other manufacturers that dual-boot PCs with Windows and Chrome OS make business sense.
WebOS Hardware to Hit the Market Soon, Beating Chrome OS to the Punch
Posted on 17. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey. 2 Comments
HP is planning to make an announcement on February 5, and ITWorld is reporting that the news will involve the company’s cloud operating system WebOS. The OS was acquired as part of HP’s purchase of Palm, and by these indications it appears that WebOS may beat Chrome OS to market as a rival with a notebook/netbook running the operating system.
But just like Jolicloud, WebOS will also allow local apps. Again, another supposed cloud OS is coming down the pipe but really, what’s the difference between using one of these and say, Windows?
Best Buy Bringing the Tablet Bonanza
Posted on 23. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Forbes.com blogger Elizabeth Woyke is reporting that Best Buy’s president of wireless Shawn Score plans on bringing the heat, tablet -style this Christmas season.
“Going into the holidays, we will make tablets a focus,“ Score said.”Like e-readers over the last couple years, we think customers will think of Best Buy for tablets and expect us to have the right ones.”
Yeah. Like e-readers. I don’t know if I agree that monochrome book replacements really have the same cachet as a multimedia tablet, but whatever. The fact of the matter is that there is going to be a wide selection of tablets showing up in the next few months, and we’ll see which one can stand up to the incumbent iPad.
Score declined to say what operating systems these tablets will have, perhaps maybe because he doesn’t even know, or maybe because they’re still trying to keep secret that there’s a Chrome OS tablet on the horizon. It’s hard to say at this point.
Android, Windows 7, webOS, Chrome OS and whatever a Blackberry tablet would run on are all possibilities. Best Buy is also expected to have a tablet at some point under their own brand, Rocketfish.
Google Was Interested in Palm – Because of Apple
Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Business Insider wrote an article recently about the talks that led to HP ultimately buying Palm. Apparently, Google was a part of these talks, mostly because they thought Apple was in the bidding – even though Google wasn’t sure if that was the case or not. Surprised Apple was interested? They likely were because of their desire to compete with RIM’s more business-attuned customers.
Although Palm was struggling financially at the hands of both Android and the iOS, they have some interesting technology to offer the market. Now that HP owns them, I would expect to see some innovative products come from the Palm brand, since the acquisition was structured so that Palm is a division of HP.
Just don’t expect a Chrome OS or Android tablet anytime soon from HP, it looks like they have their hands full trying to make some money off of Palm’s own cloud-oriented operating system called WebOS.
HP Delays Android Tablet – Why Develop One Anyway?
Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments
Lilliputing is reporting that HP is delaying its launch of an Android tablet until – who knows? It seemed like plans for any sort of tablet development would shift from the moment HP bought Palm, since the WebOS operating system is now theirs. Earlier this year, HP showed off a tablet that was running Windows 7, so who knows what the company is going to do.
Since HP has been listed as an official partner for Chrome OS, this news is somewhat interesting. I would suspect that with WebOS, Chrome OS and Windows that the company has enough on its plate as is in terms of tablets.
Besides, are Android tablets really the way to go? If you’re going to make an AndroidPad, how exactly are you differentiating yourself from Apple’s already successful tablet? Having a slate that is cloud-based would be much more interesting, especially if it is paired with an always-on wireless connection.
Ah yes, the wireless connection. That’s probably what’s taking so long for some of these Apple competitors to actually surface. Can wireless networks actually handle all of the data for these tablets?
WebOS May Now be the Focal Point of HP’s Tablet
Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments
One of the official Google hardware partners for Chrome OS has been known to be computer behemoth HP. We’ve been very interested in seeing what HP would be able to offer Google’s forthcoming computer OS since they really are one of the only computer manufacturers that has been able to create and produce designs that are, shall we say, less utilitarian and more eye-pleasing than the rest of the PC market.
But recently HP bought the financially struggling Palm, possibly to boost its position in the ever-growing mobile market. Palm has been able to design and launch smartphone products that have been critically praised of late, however because of the growing dominance of Android phones it has not been successful in boosting its flagging market share. This, in a nutshell, is why Palm desperately needed HP in order to survive.
But the fact of the matter is that now with Palm in the fold, it’s quite possible that HP will focus on developing a tablet that runs Palm’s WebOS rather than Chrome OS as might have been originally planned. WebOS sounds surprisingly similar to Chrome OS as a cloud operating system based on the Linux kernel, although WebOS may be more focused upon social media aspects, so there may be a niche edge there for Palm in that space.
So, we’re not saying that the new Palm-HP relationship (Palm is now a subsidiary) means that HP will not release its own version of a Chrome OS device this year. It does, however, leave one curious how much in terms of resources will be spent on WebOS versus Chrome when the former is something built specifically for Palm devices and could be more successfully branded for long-term opportunity in HP’s eyes.
We shall see, as it will be dependent on either device’s success, that being a laptop device or tablet. This will be HP hedging its bets on both operating systems in the end.
