We've already talked about the tremendous opportunities that will come from marrying Palm's award-winning intellectual property with HP's scale and financial strength. You can imagine the potential impact of turning the billion people who already use HP products worldwide into fans of webOS phones and mobile systems.
For me, what's equally exciting is the Palm team itself. Over the last couple of weeks, I've had the opportunity to personally meet a number of Palm employees, and I’ve been impressed with their passion for innovation, vision for the future and commitment to growing with HP.
I've also heard great stories about the Palm community's enthusiasm. And I recently met with Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer from the Palm Developer Relations Team to discuss the opportunities that lie ahead for WebOS developers.
We're looking forward to the future. Please stay tuned to The Next Bench, our Twitter channels (@HP_PC, @palm) and Facebook pages (HP for Home, Palm) for updates.
You guys rock! HP buying Palm shows that HP understands what the future is shaping up to be, and that they intend to be at the forefront for quite some time. This has showed me that rather than just dwelling on the past and old-ideas like some other companies *cough*YAHOO*cough* or short-term profits, HP is ambitious and innovative and keeps their focus on success in the long-term and making making great products. My hat goes off to you guys for welcoming Palm, it's employees, it's customers, it's app developers, and webOS enthusiasts with the open arms as appear to be. Goood luck!
Congratulations to Palm and HP! My first suggestion to you is: Be a leader, especially on mobile hardware, not a follower! (Example: the silly 5 MP camera on the iPhone 4.) Now is the time for you to blow everyone out of the water!
Get to work on that slate! I will buy one the instant it is released. WebOS has an amazing, amazing front-end on it, and with bigger/better hardware and HP's big heaps of development money behind it , it will seriously blow away consumers.
Congrats on the merger! I love my Pre and have greatly appreciated Palm's relationship with their supporters and developers. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the new hardware coming out running webOS.
I'm thrilled by the possibilities and the videocast makes me very optimistic, but (sorry ;-) ), the current homebrew environment is a 'key feature' for me. I'm sticking with Palm devices for a decade now because of their features / possibilities paired with ease of use. And I'd be happy to continue. All the best Palm/HP, there's great potential, much to gain!
In response to your tweet about feedback.... probably too late for the "Pre 2" but kepe the form factor, don't go too much bigger. Or at the very least, keep one of your phones that way.
Or do edge to edge 4" bezel free screen... that would be awesome. And build quality needs to last at least 24 months.. we aren't all spend happy gadget freaks (ok, maybe, but we all can't afford to be).
On the software front, faster is always good. But look at swype/swiftkey for keyboard entry. Very innovative. And while I always prefer a keyboard, having the option is wonderful.
Give devs the best debugging tools you can.
Find quality apps/devs and help promote them. It's not the number of fart apps the competitor has, it's the useful things like a GPS on demand logger or a calendar that works *hint*
Make it fast. Make it last. This should be a high priority. iOS is near instant response. That is what helps makes it such a good experience. WebOS is almost there, but don't lose sight of this because we have faster processors down the road.. don't get sloppy with core. if this delay has been to significantly improve that... then more props to you all.
Lastly, the lack of a roadmap feels as if we'll be waiting 6 months after something is announced. that is bad. Keep the pipelines filled with something.. updates. clear goals. keep us hooked.
Good luck, I'm holding out as long as I can for the next WebOS phone and hopefully tablet.. but patience is wearing thin in the mobile world
my tm1320 needs replacement. Do not like, not having cd drive, if not a slate. Hope I can hang on till Nov when I do have to have a new PC. Need a Windows 7 capable Slate yesterday.
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