Out with the Old, in with the New

I’ll be writing over at a new site, if you’re so inclined to check it out. It’s at www.thetechchat.com, The Tech Chat. I’m also tweeting at @TheTechChat, and as you might have noticed is the sale account as the old @AboutwebOS. If you were following the latter, you’re automatically following the former (unless you’ve unfollowed, which is cool). I still like webOS, but I’m...

HP Donates Server to webOS Internals

Yes, that’s right, folks. HP, the company that follows in Palm’s footsteps by embracing (not suing) the webOS homebrew community has gone yet another step further. They’ve donated a serious piece of server hardware to webOS Internals, to make the continued development of webOS patches and homebrew apps possible. Again, that amazes me, and HP should be commended. Everything I’ve been saying about my own...

HP webOS: Some Parting Thoughts

I’ve been thinking for the last few hours or so how best to express my feelings following HP’s announcement yesterday morning. If you’ve followed my posts on Twitter since then, you’ll have noticed a certain disappointment and frustration over various aspects of what HP announced, and I really want to get this right. After having been involved for so long with the outstanding webOS community, I don’t want...

It’s webOS Day!

Yes, indeed, today is the day that we finally learn what HP has up its sleeve for webOS. I’m filled with a certain amount of competing excitement and trepidation, because I think that while some folks will be made very happy by today’s announcement, the same might not be true for some others. However, we’ll know in just a little over two hours from now, and so there’s no more point for idle speculation....

Nobody’s Perfect

As I continue to evaluate my technology needs in the face of HP’s upcoming event on 2/9 (and to a lesser extent, Sprint’s event 2/7), I’m struck with how every available platform has something that significantly detracts from its potential value to me. Whether it’s HP Palm (webOS), Apple (iOS), Google (Android), or Microsoft (Windows Phone 7), each platform has a near-fatal weakness (yes, I’m cutting RIM...