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by aaront
5297 days ago
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He brings up the point of Symbian going open source and having a fallout. I think this is different. Symbian was a old, tired OS that wasn't extremely exciting. webOS has a fairly active homebrew community that will do some pretty cool stuff with the source. Also symbian was pretty much a phone-only OS, and I'd imagine was pretty tied down to feature phones. webOS will most likely be ported to netbooks pretty early on when it's released (the development emulator runs an x86 version), thus making a low-power consumption cloud-based netbook environment. |
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As you've said, it was only for phones, it was a pretty bad inflexible platform and improving it was very difficult.
However, Android and WebOS can help each other and improvements which end up going into the Linux kernel (as that's the "real OS") can be of use to ALL Linux devices.
After all, WebOS has a thinner stack above the Linux kernel. From what I've seen so far, it does a pretty good job at connecting the web to the Linux kernel and wrapping it nicely for the end user.
This means people will be able to customize it to their needs and provide patches upstream. From what I have seen so far, WebOS is a lot easier to work with when it comes to making something cool for it. I've even thought of using it for some of my own projects and I am now confident that it will be the right stack to use for those projects.
This is what will allow a far more rapid expansion than any other OS on mobile devices and touch based appliances - flexibility.
That guy who wrote the article didn't have the slightest idea about what he was talking or what he wanted to say.