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These look nice, but with an Android phone, I'd have to go with an Android tablet. I imagine others will think the same, be they iPhone or Android users. So, I think they might be too late. Thom, why would you even want to pair a Windows phone with a WebOS tablet? You'd have to buy apps twice etc.
Edited 2011-06-09 15:25 UTC
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Actually, nothing could be further from the truth in my case. Since I have an Android phone, I am seriously considering an iPad when the next one comes out. That way, I have access to apps in both ecosystems.
That being said though, I have little to know interest in this HP tablet. A co-worker of mine who is a webos fan recently migrated over to Android, mainly because of poor app selection on webos. That doesn't give me much hope for a tablet version, but I guess we'll see.
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On the other hand, if you use a lot of paid apps, that's not the most economical choice. If you have an iPhone, you can use all the apps you've already paid for on your iPad. If you get an Android or WebOS tablet, you'll have to buy your apps again, unless the app maker arranges for a "competitive upgrade" or something like that.
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Well, in HPs defense, Apple didn't start releasing to other countries overnight. In-fact I seem to remember the iPad being released in very few countries then getting sold in more countries as Apple secured their distribution channels. Starting slow is exactly what HP needs to do.
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I think what got to Thom is, HP had this big announcement monts ago about what product they would release and how we all had to wait 4 months before they would release a product.
And then it turns out they didn't release it for his country, any time soon.
It would be better if they would have been clear about it from the start.
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I have been waiting for this to finally be announced by HP/Palm since February 9th that I was almost about to jump ship. Yes the App Catalog in webOS is not all that great however, I rarely use more than one or two apps at a time. I came from using an Android base phone and the way you manage apps is so crappy that I left Android for webOS. I am a huge podcast listener and the podcast client Google built for Android just sucks. The one the homebrew community release called drPodder makes me a happy webOS user. Yes, I know Apple's iOS is the multimedia king. However, Apple's iOS UI needs an update in my crazy opinion. Recently Apple talked about location base reminders at the WWDC event, you have been able to do that in webOS since the beginning with an app called GeoStrings. Notifications is better in webOS than the annoying pop ups of iOS.
Also, HP and Palm have been really good to the homebrew community and all with giving them a $10k server. The ease of using an overclocked kernel is easier in webOS than Android(do not have to root the device). You can almost not brick one of these phones. The community of webOS fans is great. The developers are easy to get a hold of on Twitter and will try to work with you on trying to fix the problems you have. Some of the webOS fans are really dedicated to the OS, there are some people out there still using two year Palm Pre's that are falling apart.
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Notice that notifications have recently improved in iOS 5 to reach the quality standards of other modern mobile OSs, though I think they've kept this silly "application grid" home screen, making in the end the lock screen paradoxically display more meaningful information.
Edited 2011-06-10 07:37 UTC
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In the third paragraph I think you're looking for 'entrench', as in dig in for defense, rather than 'entrance', as in distribute the drugs more widely...
About the TouchPad, I'm going to be cheering it on...but only from the sidelines. As an ex-PalmPilot programmer I saw wave after wave of half-hearted efforts to revitalise the PalmPilot space. Different CPUs, different APIs, different OSes, pathetic developer support, fumbled marketing efforts, and frankly *crap* app store efforts.
That's not to say there weren't stars out there: people who were trying their utmost to make it happen. The problem was that they were mostly at the lower levels of the organisation. You didn't have one over-controlling, paranoid, self-centered, egomaniacal guy saying "it's going to be like *this*".
Much as I don't care for Jobs and the choices he's made for the iPads, (no flash? You gotta be kidding me, just throw the dummy out the pram already), he's made the most compelling platform, tied up with the most compelling content.
This is the key thing, as without content, it's just a shiny paperweight. Don't believe me? Try one of those horrible cheap Chinese Android tablets that can't access the app market. They're just paperweights, without the shiny bit. (Google, what were you thinking? You have two whole generations of tablet impressions out there that android tablets are rubbish. Even if slow, those Chinese tablets would have been interesting if they could only have hit the app market.)
With the littered path of broken Palm promises, HP's going to have a long row to hoe to win back developer (content creator?) trust.
The fact that people are willing to lumber themselves with the abomination that is iTunes just to make the iOS platform work says an awful lot about the quality of the iOS platform.
For my money, I'll be buying the next-gen iPad, I reckon...all the while cheering for HP. Go team!
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