I have never had much belief in webOS as an operating system on smartphones and tablets from the first time I saw it, and tried it (see the hell-o world post)
Today i came across an article from All Things D called “Ouchpad: Best buy sitting on a pile of unsold HP tablets“. Best Buy have been able to sell less than 10% of their stock of HP TouchPads so I’m not the only one that doesn’t like platform.
“According to one source who’s seen internal HP reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of the units in its inventory.”
I also found a blog post that said there was around 5000 apps available for WebOS around christmas of 2010, today i had a look at App Gallery and found 6827 apps. That’s 1827 apps in one year, so it isn’t only end users declining to buy, but also developers that won’t build.
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