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HP Unveils WebOS Tablet, Plans WebOS Computer

Posted by samzenpus on from the congtatulations-it's-a-tablet dept.

jfruhlinger writes "As had been expected, Hewlett-Packard unveiled new webOS-based smartphones and a webOS tablet today. But in a bit of a shock, the company also announced that webOS would be coming to HP PCs. Whether this is happening in specialized products only or HP plans a wholesale repudiation of Windows, it's definitely a bold move."

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  1. Re:webOS devices that won't sell by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is the same comment I leave to Android fanboys.

    Real artists ship.

    Show me product and a release date, not a flashy and useless bit of info about some product that might come out soon.

    --
    Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
  2. Re:webOS devices that won't sell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can run 2.0 on those old devices now if you're willing to do a bit of legwork. So I see no reason why they wouldn't do it themselves at some point...

    And for the 99% of users who aren't willing to doctor their devices to install an entirely unsupported new version of the OS?

    No - if HP won't officially support it, then it may as well not happen. (And don't tell me that HP has made vague promises of some form of update in the future. Their credibility at this point is shot.) When HP took over, they promised vast engineering resources that only a corporate behemoth can provide. So the fact is that they could, but they won't.