HP Shows Open webOS 1.0

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/01/2012 05:04 AM | source: | 6 comment(s)

Hewlett Packard has released Open webOS 1.0 for open source developers for use on any number of devices. webOS architect Steve Winston here shows open webOS 1.0 running on a HP TouchSmart PC, see the video after the break.

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Speed Weed
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#4421525 Posted on: 10/01/2012 11:54 AM

Will it be possible to instal this on a smartphone?
Just wondering.

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#4421529 Posted on: 10/01/2012 12:07 PM

It's not native, if you watch the video it's being emulated. You shouldn't have 3 "status" bars, one is the host OS which seems like Ubuntu, one is the window itself, and one is the guest OS which is WebOS. No wonder the engineers from HP only spent a few days making it work with a emulator lol.

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#4421680 Posted on: 10/01/2012 04:15 PM

Here's a guy who thinks that Web OS is irrelevant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt75jboUZVU

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#4421983 Posted on: 10/01/2012 11:59 PM

I'm gonna go ahead an say that Open WebOS 1.0 is kind of irrelevant, only because we already have 3 platforms already with 2 of them fighting for control, and the third coming up some.

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#4422280 Posted on: 10/02/2012 12:24 PM

On the other hand, here's someone who is genuinely annoyed with HP for abandoning WebOS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaeOXyA7wo0

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