Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, the guy who resurrected Palm, is leaving HP's Palm unit (no best alleged Palm, to boot). Taking over is Stephen DeWitt, HP's U.S. computer overlord. This isn't acceptable for webOS. In fact, It's terrible.
When webOS was formally apparent at CES in 2009, Rubinstein, forth with Ed Colligan, Matias Duarte, and Sprint's Dan Hesse all took the date to appearance off a admirable smartphone OS basically exploding with promise. But the apps never absolutely came. And I anticipate can calculation the amount of updates my Pre accustomed on a individual hand. A year afterwards it came out, I couldn't attending at my Pre and not wish more.
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Fast avant-garde to today, and Palm is now allotment of HP. There's the TouchPad (sigh). And the Veer (double sigh). Somewhere in Europe there's a Pre 3. Nearly all the above abstracts associated with the antecedent development of webOS—the humans who had the vision—are gone. Except for Rubinstein. And now he's affective on to other, possibly greener, pastures allowance to advance approaching HP computers. What does this beggarly for webOS, his company's actual legacy?
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Letting DeWitt yield the reigns acceptable agency that the webOS accumulation will be beneath about developing accelerating smartphone ideas, and added about axis the belvedere into a profitable, bottom-line commodity. And HP has not been shy in mentioning that they're advertent whoring out the OS in its accepted anatomy to basically every accessory that'll anchorage it. Smartphones! Tablets! PCs! (With Windows too!) Printers! Toasters! Clock radios! Why stop there? Ahem.
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Point is, it's accepting harder and harder to accept we'll see any abundant approaching breakthroughs from the little smartphone belvedere that could. Rubinstein and co. took risks, big ones. They dared to accomplish something different. It was good. So acceptable you can see pieces of it in every added smartphone now. DeWitt was in allegation of computer accouterments for HP. They've produced some solid hardware over the endure few years. But was there absolutely an HP artefact that evoked a faculty of awe from us, the consumers? HP even basically killed the one PC assemblage that was carrying crazy stuff, Voodoo.
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That absolutely bums me out. Because, accuracy be told, my two-year-old, technologically age-old Pre still feels added avant-garde than the best Android phones on the bazaar today.
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