WebOS/MeeGo: What Would You Have Done Differently?
Two amazing mobile platforms have succumbed to the insurmountable forces of neglect and disinterest: WebOS and MeeGo. Both platforms had their strengths and weaknesses. What they shared, however, was a huge amount of potential. The only major fault of both was that the owner(s) dropped the ball. Whether it be poor resource management, lack of marketing, or fractured roadmap/schedule, may never be known. Ultimately we’re left with a single option: choose from one of the few big platforms offered by Apple, Google, Microsoft or RIM.
If we were in charge of HP we would have put a considerably greater amount of in-house developers and company financial resources behind the webOS platform. Because MeeGo is/was open source we would have been a lot more proactive than the mishmash of supporters have been thus far and advertised the hell out of it. (How is anyone supposed to get excited (read: care) about your platform if they don’t know it exists?)
But we’re sure there are at least a few other good ideas out there. What would you have done? Leave it in the comments after the break…
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Christopher-Dean/100001220793555 Christopher Dean
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http://www.gadgetsteria.com The Gadgeteur
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Fredo
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http://www.gadgetsteria.com The Gadgeteur
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http://twitter.com/astraith Allen Straith