How’s this for a slap in the face? TNW is reporting that HP’s recently deceased webOS was actually twice as fast on the iPad as it was on their own TouchPad. Apparently the TouchPad was widely regarded as a horrible piece of technology by the webOS team, which was slow and poorly functional — a point emphasized by hacking webOS onto the iPad, and having it perform far faster:
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.
With a focus on web technologies, webOS could be deployed in the iPad’s Mobile Safari browser as a web-app; this produced similar results, with it running many times faster in the browser than it did on the TouchPad.
I think I’m not the only one who would be really interest to see webOS ported to the iPad, even if it is only as a webapp. I think it would be kinda cool to be able to play with it from within the best tablet on the market.
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It’s trememdously sad that a hardware manufacturer can’t make a tablet that can properly run their newly acquired OS. I mean, one of the main reason Apple beats everyone just on price point is that they make everything in house.
HP was poised to be a real competitor. They had the OS that would have been the strongest competition against iOS, but for whatever reason, they completely dropped the ball on the hardware, making the device slow and clunky.
HP truly is where technology goes to die. IF it wasn’t for their printer and corporate PC business, they would have folded by now. (and their printers are losing steam against canon, brother, and several others)