Many other companies have chosen Android for their phones and tablets, but this ties them closely to Google and makes it hard to stand out in the crowd of Android products.
Those two companies have won dominant market shares and the allegiance of thousands of app developers. The WebOS story also illustrates how hard it will be for anyone to mount a serious challenge to Apple and Google when it comes to mobile operating systems. “Perhaps it never could have been executed because the technology wasn’t there yet.” “Palm was ahead of its time in trying to build a phone software platform using Web technology, and we just weren’t able to execute such an ambitious and breakthrough design,” said Paul Mercer, former senior director of software at Palm, who oversaw the interface design of WebOS and recruited crucial members of the team. employees involved in WebOS say that there was little hope for the software from the beginning, because the way it was built was so deeply flawed. WebOS turned out to be something of a toxic asset. acquired Palm, the maker of WebOS, for $1.2 billion in 2010 so it could use the software in products like the TouchPad. It promised to be more flexible and open than Apple’s tightly controlled iOS software, and more beautiful than Google’s sometimes wonky Android system. That software is called WebOS, an operating system built on the same technology used by many Web browsers. But some of the people involved in creating the tablet’s core software now say the product barely had a fighting chance. killed it, citing weak sales.Īnalysts point to a long list of factors behind the tablet’s quick demise. The TouchPad, which was supposed to be a rival to Apple’s iPad, lasted just seven weeks on the market before H.P. The TouchPad tablet from Hewlett-Packard was one of the most closely watched new gadgets of 2011 - and quickly turned out to be the year’s biggest flop.
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