On the day that Nokia and MS announced their tie up, HP also released their latest set of Web OS devices. Yes, Web OS. The OS2 Warp of the 2010s. Even the intro video is frankly a bit embarassing - for starters, Todd Bradley appears to be the only person in the audience clapping when he arrives. Anyway, if you haven't got two hours to listen, here's some highlights: The aim Leverage the capabilities of HP to create a step change in mobile computing similar in scale to the introduction of the HP35 calculator (wasn't that the iPhone?) First OS designed from scratch to fully embrace the Internet (and the need for that is...) The market Most people have multiple devices and they consume a lot of web based content No one has developed a solution that works consistently across those devices (Android?) WebOS is a unique technology leveraged across a range of (HP) devices Technology The "Synergy" feature merges information from cloud and brings it onto devices in an inte...
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