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Most interesting bit in this article for me was the advice to woo web developers and not mobile app developers. Seems like a tactic that could win, assuming webOS lives on (unlikely). There are tons of web developers who didn't make the jump to mobile who would love the chance to experiment with mobile without completely throwing out the years of web knowledge they have earned.

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This was the tactic all along in theory; the idea that web developers could immediately leverage their existing skills into the mobile space.

In reality, though, they never really focused on driving this point IMO, deferring to their own "webOS Meetups" and sending representatives to mobile conferences when they should have been sending their developer relations reps and evangelists to web development conferences such as An Event Apart.

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