LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive

Posted Sep 4, 2014 22:44 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive by rahvin
Parent article: LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive

Mutual benefit, certainly. But ARM does have iOS, QNX, even Windows. It has advantages over Intel for mobile devices - narrowing now, but the gap in power consumption was significant earlier.

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LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive

Posted Sep 6, 2014 9:47 UTC (Sat) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (2 responses)

Except that iOS and Windows only run on specially crafted ARM platforms.

LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive

Posted Sep 7, 2014 2:38 UTC (Sun) by rahvin (guest, #16953) [Link] (1 responses)

And were only developed because ARM had immense success because of Linux. Apple would have embraced it for sure, they were after all involved in the origination of ARM but without the immense success ARM has had because of Linux I doubt they would be as large or ubiquitous as they are now.

LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive

Posted Sep 7, 2014 18:57 UTC (Sun) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

The ARM platform has been in a large amount of hardware way before Linux was even ported into it. Cars, computer parts, watches etc have used ARMS since 1985 and the ARM chip was shipping at much larger numbers of CPUs compared to Intel and other manufacturers since the mid to late 1990s.

Linux had nothing to do with that.. The market that ARM is known for now (small units like beaglebone etc) is large because of Linux but in numbers shipped they are immensely tiny compared to overall ARM usage.