[Q] How will webOS grow with Apple and Android around?

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What is HP's strategy in growing this wonderful and highly underrated platform?

Originally Posted by qipengart

What is HP's strategy in growing this wonderful and highly underrated platform?

Very expensive Advertisement and commercials

They are:

1) Going to do /doing expensive Ads and Commercials
2) Talking to "Big-Name-Developers" like Amazon, Hulu and Netflix to develope Apps for their OS
3) Building "SWAT-Teams" to help to develop WebOS-Apps directy at the developer and to train their programmers
4) Bring Enterprise Applications to WebOS (Citrix, SAP etc.)
5) Introducing WebOS into all of their PCs and Laptops, so that Applications written for WebOS also run on each of their PCs (integrated Data, multi-platform operability etc.)
6) Developing a new SDK basing on Java Script to further enhance the possibilities and make it easier to develop. This SDK also is supposed to make developing Apps with multiple views for different resolutions and dpi like a breaze. You can test your new App directly in your browser.
7) Bringing out new WebOS-Hardware not just once a year but bringing out multiple devices over the whole year.
8) Introducing a lot of technogies that HP has bought (Cloudstorage, nuTsie -> Music Synergy -> All your Music on all your devices)
9) Using their Enterprise Channels to push their products.
10) Connecting WebOS into more and more of their products, so that customers get more and more advancements the more HP devices they use (better for HP-> more sales)

These are the "quick"-points that I could think of 8-)

Putting it on a 100 million PCs.

They could always make their OS and devices completely open with root access right from the start. That'd help a lot--I'd abandon Android for that...

... well, except for the weird portrait slider keyboard thing...

Originally Posted by synaesthetic

They could always make their OS and devices completely open with root access right from the start. That'd help a lot--I'd abandon Android for that...

... well, except for the weird portrait slider keyboard thing...

It is, you just flip a switch and turn developer mode on.

Hopefully market the damn thing. Palm made 2 big mistakes with the Pre.

1.No marketing at all.
2.They expected the Pre to grow as big as the Iphone did as a single device as the Iphone did.

Palm didn't market the Pre at all, but then expected to see results like the Iphone since it was a single device like the Pre. It had the hardware to be even faster than the Iphone, EASILY faster but Palm simply didn't make it out at the right time. The Pixi they marketed a bit, but it was horrible and for what the pixi was it came out too late. HP is taking WebOS seriously, they've put out teasers of their devices, they've got multiple devices and markets they're covering, and developers are actually looking forward to these new devices.

Originally Posted by i_maq

It is, you just flip a switch and turn developer mode on.

What, for real?

Now if they can stop doing the dumb portrait slider thing... and some proper expandable memory... I'd be down...

That weird sliding portrait keyboard was one of my favorite features. It's still the easiest platform to find a contact or app or website on: slide, type. First initial, two or three letters from the last name and my desired contact's right there. It makes Android look like a helmeted kid on the short bus. Gesture search is the closest comparison. Power on, tap gesture search, start drawing letters from the first or last name (but not combined in WebOS's more efficient method), then choose the contact. Ugh. I've had an Evo since last summer and still can't find an efficient way to look up a person.

HTC Evo, Tapatalk

they need commercials more then any thing
and another thing ... they need to keep it free for users