“HP’s WebOS team almost certainly had an idea that the company’s new tablet, the TouchPad, had very little chance of challenging Apple’s dominance in the tablet market, as the company’s webOS operating system was running ‘over twice as fast’ on its rival’s iPad 2 tablet, a source close to the subject revealed to The Next Web,” Matt Brian reports for TNW.
“With HP announcing it is to cease development of its webOS devices, we learned that before the HP’s TouchPad tablet and Pre smartphones were even released, everyone within the webOS team ‘wanted them gone,'” Brian reports. “The hardware reportedly stopped the team from innovating beyond certain points because it was slow and imposed constraints, which was highlighted when webOS was loaded on to Apple’s iPad device and found to run the platform significantly faster than the device for which it was originally developed.”
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Brian reports, “With a focus on web technologies, webOS could be deployed in the iPad’s Mobile Safari browser as a web-app; this produced similar results, with it running many times faster in the browser than it did on the TouchPad.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Opportun” for the heads up.]
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