HP: webOS Will Be Better Than Android, iOS

ok. I like to see some proof please.

this article made me laugh hahahahahahha

I actually prefer webOS to android I have a touchpad which dual boots and i only use android for the app market. I love the multi tasking on webOS, i actually cant live without it anymore

"She even suggested that Android may ultimately be more closed in the future thanks to Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility."
She missed this boat here; there are plenty of custom ROMs, apps and tweaks around to prove her wrong. Motorola, yes, they like to put chastity belts on their phones, but the rest are wide open. that only means that Moto phones may be "closed", not Android as a platform.
Even with Moto being so, devs at XDA are pretty good with them locks...

And Meg Whitman will be governor of California.

Of course they'll say that, would someone really say that they are going to release a product that cannot match or be on par with their competitors. My case and point: AMD likely knew they couldn't beat Intel with Bulldozer but that didn't stop them from marketing it like it could.

As the bad guy from Taken would say, "Good luck."

pppppphhhhhhhhhhhhh

"Better" doesn't mean popular, or more supported..

It may end up being better than Android. That OS is fracturing all over the place. She should work on the PC side of things more though. It's really bad when you are the largest PC manufacturer in the world, and still can't make a profit at it.

Alright we're waiting to be impressed then.

Good to know webOS will be better. A more fundamental question is when will this happend. The mobile market is one that changes very quickly and dramatically, something Nokia and Microsoft seem to keep forgetting (to some degree this holds true for Apple as well).

So: When? When will I be able to buy a webOS device? Q2/12, Q3/12, Q4/12, 2013? People want to buy a webOS device *now*.

"But the fact is, the world can probably use one more operating system." every company says the same.
"Meg Whitman said that webOS will be better than Android and iOS." BETTER like in what? so abstract.

funny article. she doesn't even known what she's talking about yet she receives millions of dollars for saying it.

house70 - This is a ridiculous statement, this is the same site that I regularly see apple bagged for not being open and requiring a Jailbreak to be usable (never mind the fact that I had to root my android to allow the tethering that iphones support out of the box).

Yet the same people will sit there and argue that Android will always be open (Despite google now owning Moto) because there will always be ways to ways to hack it so that makes it open.

LOL

Android upgrades etc are so all over the place with most manufacturing culling support for phones within two years and the experience being totally different on every device. Personally I'm loving the competition that we now have with all of these companies having to go out of the way to woo us. And webos as opensource like a great alternative.

Is it just me or are Android users more sheep like than Apple users? Certainly seem just as closed minded. Kind of reminds me of goths, soooo desperate not to conform that they do the complete opposite and they become even more laughably associated and clone like than those that they argue are sheep. Good one guys.

Multitasking on android sucks. There is no real way to minimize things, you just back out of them to get back to the home screen, and they show up on the task list if they want to. If you go back in to the app you were running, it may or may not attempt to restore its previous state, wasting time and bandwidth reloading everything from the net if it uses it. And if you don't have a net connection at that point...

This is especially the case for the browser, which sucks.

webOS is the best GUI I've ever used. Beats iOS and Android by a mile.

for me, webos 3 js better than android (including android 4)

it just has a more functional UI. It makes better use of the limited screen space, eg the space wasting button bar crap at the bottom of the screen, is replaced by simple gestures

it currently has the best keyboard (it actually has a number row)

settings and other options are easier to get to (less clicking)

The UI is just overall better compared to android and the ios. The only thing really lacking is the app selection

I originally got the touchpad during the firesale in the hopes of getting android installed, but now I hardly use android, webos is just overall better for me at least.

if hp could have released android app support like in the playbook, then improved the tablet a bit, eg not jumping directly to the ipad style price tag
and also added a rear facing camera, along with usb host and a micro sd card slot, then it would have been successful. The hp touchpad tablet is overall better than the ipad 2 in terms of features (better speakers (probably the best speakers of any tablet currently on the market), faster CPU when overclocked (overclocks to 1.83GHz for both cores), 1GB RAM)

while the tablet is great, HP should have never tried to price it similarly to the ipad (no one will buy a product in it's first entry into the market when a well established and supported device can be had for the same price)

now that the os is open source, it stands a good chance at becoming widely adopted. Remember, a ui can make or break an os. (just look at linux compared to windows and understand that PC gamers are a minority. Linux wins out on just about everything except the UI. Microsoft has done well to provide a UI that is simple and command like free for about 99.9% of things that a user would want to do, while also allowing for more advanced things if the user desires.

on linux the average user will eventually come across the limitations of the app and end up frustrated over the stupid stupid tar.gz files, or end up with non intuitive commands when a tar.gz app fails because the user did not run the other 10 commands to install dependencies

all in all, the user experience is one of the most important aspects of an OS

NAd I would say in your dreams

I like WebOS far better than android and IOS, but, its lack of access to the app market is its weakness. It may be too late to catch up, but after using the TouchPad, I hope it finds its place.

this is why women should never run a company, let alone set a foot outside the kitchen. Spouting shit!

Web OS < iOS = Android


WebOS is atmost a 2-3

Android is a 8-9

iOS is a 8-9 as well...

I for one can not wait until I have WebOS back in my handheld with H/W specs that rival smartphones on the market currently. I agree the UI/UX is the best in the business, nothing is more functional and intuitive. I traded up (if you can say that) to Android from WebOS (original Pre) about 6 months ago and still really miss my WebOS. C'mon open source communuity and manufacturers let's put this O/S where it rightfully belongs.

1. when I was saying phones are locked, I was referring to their respective bootloaders; there are phones that have unlocked bootloaders, some that have easily un-lockable bootloaders, and then is Moto, which always tries to create a challenge to people that want them unlocked. If you own an Android phone, you should already understand that. once the bootloader is unlocked, installing custom ROMs and recoveries are easy as pie. The beauty of Android is that the code is available, hence there are plenty of custom ROMs and other tweaks to fit every need out there.
2. Comparing this to iOS is ridiculous (to use your term), because jailbreaking an iDevice only allows for non-AppStore applications to be installed; that does NOT make it a "custom iOS".
3. the fact that you needed to expand the functionality to gain, say, tethering is only because retarded wireless operators chose to cripple the OS to their liking. This is akin to complaining that a demo is not as functional as a fully paid application on a PC.
As a matter of fact, if Android were to be a closed OS, operators could not fiddle with the functional aspect of it, could not integrate bloatware in ROMs, making it hard to remove, and so on. At the same time, you would not have devs out there capable of creating beautifully functional ROMs for people like you and me (not without infringing on some closed EULA). I for one prefer the openness and customization of Android to the closeness of iOS.
Same goes for the updates; don't believe for a second that the operators don't have the latest pure Android code available; they choose to delay the release because they want to make sure their restrictions are again and again integrated successfully into their crippled ROMs.
4. calling people names just goes to show the extent to which you are capable of sustaining an argument.

The only thing that could be said to HP is that they had a gem and they blew it. Now they're hoping the open community will save the name in the end.
Even so, I am more confident that the community will create a better OS than I am in HP being able to create the H/W to go with it.

but not better than Windows Phone XD

Design a new programing language that can run ANY iOS AND ANDROID application. then make it require super low ram compared to the other competitors, but put way more ram into the device (4gb ddr3). have the battery life about 20 hours one a single charge. make it a quad core processor that benchmarks 4 times over the tegra 3 or at least 4x over the A5 chip from apple. design it to where its as thin as the transformer prime or at least the ipad 2. make the bezel spaces really small... but not too small to where you can't rest your thumb on when you are are holding it upright. find a way to put a mini-HDMI port on it or WIDI support. let it run both PC software AND mac OS software. make the webOS software capable of dual window view (i actually made that word up... you know...when im writing a paper, i like to split my screen up... one for microsoft office word and one for the website. Also emulate the ibooks 2 that ipad 2 has so we can hack into those books and actually view them and pay nothing for them HAHA. camera on both sides. To regulate fragmentation, make it exclusive to your company only... android is doing a decent job with fragmentation but its still not perfect. make the price of the machine $500 tops...

I've used them all as well and I do find webOS intuitive in many ways. With some tweaks and performance optimizations, it could be very competitive. Only thing I haven't used yet is WP7.

Massive overpromising with a straight face? Whitman is still a politician, and not a particularly good one. (I'm talking character, not policies.)

Never trust a woman with a pearl necklace...

webOS will be better than Android & iOS... in say 10years time compared to Android/iOS of today's time (NOT andoid/ios after 10years).

Its not just about making a good OS it has a lot to do with which ones become entrenched. WP7 is suppose to be a great OS but it is having a hard time pulling customers who already use iOS or Android.