Lukas Mathis: Please Steal These webOS Features
Lukas Mathis on ignore the code:
Of course, it’s not assured that this is the end of webOS. Maybe open-sourcing it will be the best thing that ever happened to webOS.7 But maybe it just means that HP doesn’t care anymore, and that webOS won’t receive much attention anymore. This would be unfortunate, because webOS is one of the few current mobile operating systems that are actually a joy to use. It’s been hurt by HP’s incompetent management, rather than any egregious faults of its own.
The least we can do now is to keep its best ideas alive, even if webOS itself won’t make it.
I love webOS. I have never used it, but I love the look of it, its great concepts and its innovation. It is very unfortunate that HP got a hold of Palm instead of someone more competent.
Mathis makes many great points as to why it’s sad that webOS is slowly dying, and why its ideas must live on elsewhere. A must read for anyone interested in mobile operating systems.
