Ex-Palm employees: WebOS destined to fail, report says
WebOS was destined to fail from the beginning, according to former Palm employees who spoke with The New York Times.
The mobile operating system, which powered Hewlett-Packard's famous flameout TouchPad, was intended to compete with Apple's iOS and Google's Android. But people involved in its creation say the platform was doomed from conception.
"Palm was ahead of its time in trying to build a phone software platform using Web technology, and we just weren't able to execute such an ambitious and breakthrough design," Paul Mercer, the former senior director of software at Palm who … Read more
