<story><title>It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/18/its-official-hp-kills-off-webos-phones-and-the-touchpad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donw</author><text>Once again, HP proves that the collective vision of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard is so long-dead that the tombstone has crumbled to dust.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m gutted. Genuinely.&lt;p&gt;When I was younger, before Fiorina stepped up to be the first to rape the corpses of the founders, I was a massive fan of HP. My first graphing calculator was an HP48G, which taught me the joys of Lisp... well, Psil, because it came with Reverse Polish Lisp.&lt;p&gt;WebOS could have been the resurrection of that culture -- fully JavaScript development environment, app development across multiple mobile and tablet platforms with a single environment... just genius. It&apos;s sad to see that vision evaporate, along with some of the novel telephony and interactive features that made WebOS a joy to work with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaostheory</author><text>I can&apos;t help but think of MS in this situation. It reminds me of MS breaking into the video game console market and fighting really hard to stay in it. Even after a major hardware snafu that cost them an estimated 3 billion dollars they kept fighting. After six years of work, it&apos;s finally doing well.&lt;p&gt;WebOS was worth fighting for and it was in better shape than the 1st and 2nd Xbox IMO. What a waste.</text></comment>
<story><title>It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/18/its-official-hp-kills-off-webos-phones-and-the-touchpad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donw</author><text>Once again, HP proves that the collective vision of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard is so long-dead that the tombstone has crumbled to dust.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m gutted. Genuinely.&lt;p&gt;When I was younger, before Fiorina stepped up to be the first to rape the corpses of the founders, I was a massive fan of HP. My first graphing calculator was an HP48G, which taught me the joys of Lisp... well, Psil, because it came with Reverse Polish Lisp.&lt;p&gt;WebOS could have been the resurrection of that culture -- fully JavaScript development environment, app development across multiple mobile and tablet platforms with a single environment... just genius. It&apos;s sad to see that vision evaporate, along with some of the novel telephony and interactive features that made WebOS a joy to work with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MatthewPhillips</author><text>I was just rewatching this video and got sad: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY4HDftIllw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY4HDftIllw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enyo let you write HTML5 apps in Chrome, Firefox or whatever, and essentially (to simplify) add a few WebOS hints and you have a fully functional native app.  More than anything else, I hope Enyo becomes completely open source so we can write html5 cross-os apps that are as snappy as those on WebOS with a framework that lets you create reuseable parts.</text></comment>