HP’s WebOS team almost certainly had an idea that the company’s new tablet, the TouchPad, had very little chance of challenging Apple’s dominance in the tablet market,

1. August 20, 2011
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WebOS on An iPad Ran Over Twice As Fast
As the TouchPad
WebOS on An iPad Ran Over Twice As Fast ning many times faster in the browser than it did
As the TouchPad on the TouchPad.
When HP announced its acquisition of Palm, the
computing giant had already built the TouchPad
hardware that sits on the shelves today. Basically,
the TouchPad was a two-year old piece of hardware
that the webOS team equipped with their tablet-
friendly platform.
Our source also indicated that HP also had plans to
release a 7-inch version of the TouchPad, the Touch-
Pad Go. This was already in production and before
HP’s WebOS team almost certainly had an idea that yesterday was expected to launch in the coming
the company’s new tablet, the TouchPad, had very months. It is unknown whether it will ever see a
little chance of challenging Apple’s dominance in public launch now. The TouchPad Go was seen as
the tablet market, as the company’s webOS opera- a better looking and nicer feeling device that had
ting system was running “over twice as fast” on its the potential to sell, with it believed that sales of
rival’s iPad 2 tablet, a source close to the subject the device would outpace the TouchPad’s if it had
revealed.Update below. been released before its larger cousin.
With HP announcing it is to cease development of We’ve also heard that HP in fact already had the next
its webOS devices, we learned that before the HP’s generation of TouchPad in the works. The details
TouchPad tablet and Pre smartphones were even are very fuzzy here but we believe that it would be
released, everyone within the webOS team “wanted a lighter model with a higher-resolution ‘retina’ dis-
them gone”. play and a metal body. Nothing out of the ordinary
if HP truly wanted to make a splash with its next
The hardware reportedly stopped the team from in- potential offering.
novating beyond certain points because it was slow
and imposed constraints, which was highlighted Because webOS is limited to working on the Qual-
when webOS was loaded on to Apple’s iPad device comm chipset, potential hardware partners would
and found to run the platform significantly faster need to have a special version of webOS written for
than the device for which it was originally deve- their hardware. This makes it hard to determine a
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loped. likely licensee, but we know that HP has already
been working on porting webOS to other architec-
With a focus on web technologies, webOS could be tures, including Apple’s A5 SoC.
deployed in the iPad’s Mobile Safari browser as a
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WebOS on An iPad Ran Over Twice As Fast As the TouchPad
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devices, the webOS team face an uncertain future.
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the decision to kill off its webOS devices and how teryfast.co.uk
different teams came to learn of the news, we sug-
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Update: As reader Joshua Tewell points out in the What a student’s major is important to consider
comments below, webOS has and continues to run when choosing a laptop
on other chipsets besides Qualcomm’s. This sup-
ports the fact that webOS may have been adapted Help Tips: Do Your Eyes Have Computer Vision Syn-
to other chipsets, but it makes the statement in the drome?
article above that webOS is ‘limited to working on
the Qualcomm chipset’ inaccurate. Thank you for Lose Your Laptop? Change all Passwords, Quickly
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