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Open webOS "Community Edition" releasedOpen webOS "Community Edition" releasedPosted Jun 28, 2012 15:32 UTC (Thu) by dsommers (subscriber, #55274)Parent article: Open webOS "Community Edition" released
Looking forward to see if some hardware manufactures bites this bullet and produces some useful open devices. To me, webOS seems to be the most open OS and realistic alternative for mobile/tablet devices. Android really needs a competitor.
maemo->MeeGo->Tizen looks more like /dev/zero (yes, zero) to me. I actually expect Tizen to change name again some time later this year when somebody are able to announce a Tizen based device. It steps back to start over and over again, with zero progress. After all that's what happened before Nokia N9 (and N950) was announced - and abandoned before the hardware was really publicly available (iirc). And MeeGo was announced shortly after N900 with maemo5 was publicly available, after talking loudly about how great maemo6 would be. Did these decision makers ever hear about the Osborne effect?
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Open webOS "Community Edition" released Posted Jun 29, 2012 18:29 UTC (Fri) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]
I'm in a similar boat. I'm on the sidelines with my n900 and n9 in my pocket, keeping an eye on WebOS and hoping that it starts looking viable before I bite the bullet and get an android phone.
I have gotten used to having X, a terminal and apt on my phones. All the comforts of home! I don't want to go live in Java^WDalvik sandbox land...
Open webOS "Community Edition" released Posted Jul 4, 2012 6:38 UTC (Wed) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]
Sounds similar to my habits on a WebOS phone, except s/apt/opkg given its OpenEmbedded heritage. I certainly hope there will be more WebOS-ready phone hardware available when it is time to replace my current phone (hopefully not at all soon).
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