We're Not Walking Away From Continuum, Says HP (theregister.co.uk)

An anonymous reader shares a report: While Windows roadmaps purportedly leaked to a blog last week appear to have a big hole in them where mobile should be, HP Inc tells us it has been assured by Redmond there are no plans to drop Continuum. HP is the sole major mobile vendor committed to the Windows Mobile Edition of Windows 10 and bet big on Continuum, the multimode "use-your-phone-as-a-PC" feature on which some of HP's ambitions rest. El Reg was impressed by HP's plans to build an ecosystem around the multi-mode capabilities of the HP Elite x3 phone, which doubles up as a PC replacement. (Or tries to.) Launching in over 50 markets, the ecosystem includes a streaming apps service HP Workplace to fill in the app gap, and even a "lap dock." HP pitched it at field workers and verticals. The only thing letting Inc-ers down was the quality of the software from Microsoft. Spring came and went without the expected improvements to Continuum. Unauthorised briefings last week suggest the Windows Mobile branch of Windows 10 is now an orphan.

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Re:We Are Walking Away From HP, Says Continuum

[Junta]

As an owner of the Pre (who actually did go begrudingly to Sprint), I'll agree, though WebOS at least was more robust UI and multitasking wise compared to Android and Apple, though frustratingly enough Palm was too invested in javascript+html only app, and only later added native app support (which was kind of neat in a way since it was SDL and very familiar to a Linux game developer, but only neat to Linux game developers really...)

And yes, the concept when they announced WebOS promised seamless capability that wouldn't appear for years in reality, and if they had pulled that off, that would have been neat.

I'm skeptical there was room for another monolithic vendor, though. Apple certainly is that, but I think that is the good fortune of being peerless when launch. If iPhone launched 2 years later, I suspect even Apple wouldn't have broken into the market.