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Too bad they didn't keep webOS around...

It's not too late to bring it back.

They could but they would have a lot of developers sniffing around the edges trying to figure out if HP was really serious this time. Last time I went to their developer conference they said they were really serious, and then 3 months later dumped the entire thing.

Unlike Google, they actually had a decent tablet OS. They had ceded the smartphone market to Apple and Google. But at the time the only real tablets were coming from Apple. Some idiot bean count of a CEO saw the competition (iOS and Honeycomb) and got scared.

Its gone. HP lost its credibility with app developers - they've moved on and they're not coming back.

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Enyo is still under active development, so no, they didn't snag the entire team despite what was inaccurately reported in all of the tech blogs at the time.

They don't have any hardware to run it on. The Touchpads are shutdown, finished, gone. The tools have been dismantled and the workers sent elsewhere. Enyo is little more than a project looking for a purpose at this point.

> They don't have any hardware to run it on.

Hmmm, you do realise that Enyo is cross-platform right?

Like I said, a project looking for a problem. There are now 5-7 cross platform solutions with stronger developer community support.

Really, that many? Got any links to share?

I am surprised people don't talk more about how badly HP messed up WebOS.

If they had put their weight behind it and licensed it could easily have given Android a run for its money and at the very least knocked RIM squarely out of the market.

Here is an recent and excellent article on the sordid story of Palm and WebOS:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-insid...

They didn't completely kill it off. I suspect they maintained Open webOS as plan B, just in case they needed it.

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