[SGVLUG] Android on the HP Touchpad

[matti]

Hi,

I am guessing HP wanted to not follow google's lead.
>From what I have read webOS had some really nice things
going for it as an OS, but it lacked a developer community.

a couple interesting articles I read:

HP's Lack of Invention is Why webOS Failed
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/webos-failure-by-design-hp-touchpad-palm-voodoopc,13261.html

Why webOS failed 
http://www.fabcapo.com/2011/08/why-webos-failed.html


best
matti

fyi - free apps for the hp touchpad
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3257809


--- On Mon, 8/29/11, Braydon <ronin at braydon.com> wrote:

> From: Braydon <ronin at braydon.com>
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Android on the HP Touchpad
> To: "SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Date: Monday, August 29, 2011, 3:46 AM
> Why didn't they put Android on it in
> the first place, terrible 
> management on their part.... I'm all for starting new user
> interface 
> systems, but so many new try and fail because of not enough
> community 
> support to get them fully functioning. Android on the
> Freerunner has 
> been so far the best distribution to use there, in regards
> to doing what 
> it's supposed to do, I've tried almost all of them.
>