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Lack of sales/interest due to slow hardware?

Lack of sales/interest due to slow hardware?

Posted Aug 20, 2011 15:53 UTC (Sat) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: Lack of sales/interest due to slow hardware? by pr1268
Parent article: HP dropping webOS devices

There is nothing to really explain, because we don't know what the speed difference was or how it was measured.

For example, WebOS uses the V8 Javascript engine, whereas iOS uses Nitro. As far as I know, V8 is still the faster of the two. So I'm sure you could come up with some benchmark like loading a complicated web page where webOS wins.


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