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taligent on June 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: HP said to dump Microsoft ARM tablets over Surface

I am surprised people don't talk more about how badly HP messed up WebOS.

If they had put their weight behind it and licensed it could easily have given Android a run for its money and at the very least knocked RIM squarely out of the market.

bokchoi on June 29, 2012 [–]

Here is an recent and excellent article on the sordid story of Palm and WebOS:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-insid...

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