webOS ran twice as fast on iPad 2 as TouchPad? [Updated]
Matt Brian from The Next Web has a source that claims, before canceling all webOS devices, people inside HP tested webOS as a web app on iPad 2 using Safari and the results were twice as fast as their own TouchPad hardware.
The hardware reportedly stopped the team from innovating beyond certain points because it was slow and imposed constraints, which was highlighted when webOS was loaded on to Apple’s iPad device and found to run the platform significantly faster than the device for which it was originally developed.
Which begs the question -- why didn't HP make better hardware? Even if the TouchPad hardware was already in progress when cash-strapped Palm was acquired, why didn't HP scrap it and make something better, the way Samsung scrapped the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 after seeing iPad 2, and brought a thinner, lighter, and faster model to the table?
Or would that have conflicted with HP's intent to surrender the consumer hardware market? Here's hoping someone with some manufacturing balls picks up webOS and runs with it...
Update: PreCentral.net calls shenanigans: [[
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It's because HP sucks at hardware. They always have.
True, and then try working for a company that only uses hardware and software that's at least two years old before they adopt it. Imagine trying to run a graphics department on such junk.
Yeah, it's not to hard to argue for Macs when you actually need them.
That's one question. It's just one of many. When Leo was hired, why didn't he, after an evaluation, just scrap it altogether? The list of reasons that HP is giving out today were just as obvious then.
The true injustice was HP's actions all year along. Saying one thing and then flipflopping a week later. Saying they lied all year is harsh, but it's pretty close to the truth. You can't pin all this on Ruby (which many have done) or some other overeager VP. Half the lies came directly from the top...Leo himself.
There's no way I'd consider using HP again.
Please someone hurry up and leak that address to the web app. I would like to try that!
I've played with the TouchPad and nothing seemed slow to me. In fact it was quite pleasant and surprisingly fluid.
I would love to see apple pick up palm straight out buy palm from hp yes palm .... Hp bought palm and ruined everything I'm on my original pre this is better then anything hp could develop hah
Not so fast:http://www.precentral.net/hp-tested-webos-ipad-it-ran-twice-fast-not-so-...
Owned 3 of them, utter junk. Just like their laptops and printers (1.5 minute startup time for an office printer?????)
Does Renee beat off to his postings cause that's what it seems like to me lol rubbin one out to his free apple stickers
Rene, WebOS deserves to FAIL. Palm deserves to FAIL. They made the Palm pre to masquerade as an ipod and sync with itunes before they were blocked. And they had the audacity to complain to USBIF and were slapped by USBIF.
What kind of business practice is this?
I completely forgot about that. I'm sure Palm did it twice, after Apple blocked it too.
They announced the original Pre at CES 2009, and then waited 6 months before advertising it(terribly) and shipping it.
They then repeated the process for the Pre 3 and TouchPad this year.
Agreed. Apple seems to be the only one with a cohesive, long-term strategy. Everyone else is merely following/reacting and asking themselves "Why are we in this space?"