| ▲ | w4der 19 hours ago | |
It is a pretty sad story, and one that has been rather well told: https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-insi... https://www.philmckinney.com/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-pa... | ||
| ▲ | cogman10 18 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I worked at HP as an intern during the saga. I even got to attend a training by the Palm team... Which wasn't great. My impression just from that training is that WebOs was extremely mismanaged. The training was billed as a "how to write apps for WebOs" and it instead was an hour long meander by the Palm employee about how different the company culture is and how hard it became to do anything. I had the distinct impression they didn't even know that the training was supposed to be before being assigned to do it. I think that's indicative of everything. HP had this product that they were trying to shoehorn into the most bizarre places. At it's core it was a mobile Linux os which used html/css/JavaScript as the main user experience engine. And HP was trying to put that on printers and rack mount displays. The one place they didn't seem to care putting it was the mobile devices it was designed to target. They simply half assed the launch of a product. | ||