It's hard for me to believe that this is all due to limitations within WebOS. Sure there are issues, but plenty of programmers have learned to work with them/around them and get the functionality that they need. Not that Palm should fix these limitations asap, but HOPEFULLY WebOS 2.0 will make a lot of these irrelevant.
Evernote already has a ton of platforms and WebOS is their smallest userbase, so it's obvious that they made a business decision to devote the resources proportional to that userbase, thus a tiny amount compared to other platforms. Obviously that was not enough to deal with the issues in any kind of timely way, and so probably EN just decided that instead of giving people false hope, they'd just announce they were halting WebOS development, deal with some initial bad feelings from the WebOS community rather than months of constant complaining. I don't think that decision was a bad one, but I do question the timing. I can see it happening either before HP bought them, or in the first few months after the announcement. But now is when HP is (supposedly) about to unveil the specifics for new devices and WebOS 2.0. Seems a bit odd that they'd be doing this right before then, but I suppose they also want to guage how these new devices will actually do in the market, and they probably won't be able to tell that until they've been out for at least a couple of months and can see whether they are selling and much greater rates than the Pre and Pre Plus. Then again, it's certainly possible that they might have gotten some insider information about said devices and come to their own conclusion that they wouldn't do anything to increase Palm's userbase much. Who knows. In any case, while I certainly like Evernote, I hardly would base my decision of what kind of phone to buy on it. I know for some it's much more central, just not me... Levi Wallach blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:02 AM, John Messeder <[email protected]> wrote: > Another nail in the Palm coffin. > > On 8/25/2010 10:39 AM, Levi Wallach wrote: > > EN is supposedly halting devopment of their WebOS client for now. > > Who knows if 2.0 will make them start up again but at least for > > now support maybe iffy... > > -- > If brute force isn't working, you're not using enough of it. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
