Congrats on the new job! I share a lot of your feelings and thoughts. I also hope that HP can pull off something amazing. Can't wait to see what happens!
-- Michael On 8/18/2010 8:05 PM, Levi Wallach wrote: > I just started a new job this week and a lot of the developers have Android > devices. One guy just got an Evo and was showing off Flash and the voice > recognition. It's getting harder to resist that kind of temptation. I do > hope Palm gets WebOS 2.0 and their new devices out in the next couple of > months. A year and a half ago these phones were cutting edge, but no new > hardware for this long is really starting to get tiresome. I understand why > this might be, but it doesn't make it any easier as far as the waiting > goes. You also can't blame these app developers who ignore WebOS which has > a tiny fraction of the phones that Android and iOS has on the market. > Hopefully HP/Palm can push companies to develop stuff especially given that > it's easy to port iOS stuff to PDK, maybe give them some added incentives, > but at a certain point, they can't do this with every development company > out there. They are going to have to get more people buying their devices, > and the only way to do that at this point is to produce something that's > compelling enough for people to risk ditching Android and iOS in favor of a > mobile OS whose future is a lot more murky. I honestly don't know how > they'll be able to accomplish that. Certainly they can produce something > that's of the same quality perhaps even a bit better than the current > competition, but I fear they really have to go well beyond it in order to > convince people to risk the safety of those other platforms... It should be > an interesting Fall! > > > Levi Wallach > blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com > tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) > > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Michael M. Rye<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Once again, Palm webOS gets snubbed! >> >> *OnStar^® Launching Mobile App for 2011 Chevrolet Vehicles* >> **** >> ** >> http://velocity.tm00.com/TMsubscribe.net/ViewOnline.aspx?u=OaQgZirWtxPO&l=373107 >> >> -- >> Michael >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
