It’s that time again where we highlight, spotlight, and showcase one of the many webOS devs that have stuck around to keep us all going. Next up is a very busy and active member of the our great webOS community. Please join me in welcoming Grabber5.0!
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To Doctor or Not To Doctor: A Call to Stop “Lazy Troubleshooting”
The forums on webOS Nation are hands-down the place for webOS community interaction. Battery jumps to 0%? Stuck on the HP logo? All you have to do is ask for help. That’s the best part of our community! We support each other.
While the level of help you will receive on the forums varies with the subject matter, there are always those issues which seem to gather more “just doctor and be done with it” responses than actual troubleshooting steps. That’s a problem. Too often, help was just a bit too late to get there before someone pulled the “doctor it” trigger. Let me be frank…if that’s you, quit it. Seriously. And read on…
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Former HP CTO weighs in on LG’s webOS TV
pivotCE reached out to former HP CTO, Phil McKinney, for his thoughts on LG’s implementation of webOS for their new line of TVs. As you may remember, Phil was on the HP board of directors and was pivotal to HP’s Palm acquisition. He has since retired from HP and is now the President and CEO of CableLabs. He just happens to be attending CES 2014 and had a chance to answer our inquiry with a hands-on look. Here’s what he had to say about the rebirth of the webOS platform:
TouchPad Spotted in TV Commercial
No, this has nothing to do with LG’s new webOS TV, but it does have to do with webOS seen on TV…at least on a TouchPad spotted in a commerical.
Our favorite tablet, the HP TouchPad, can be seen in the latest “but-wait-there’s-more” style TV advertisement featuring the GoGo Pillow. The pillow is a combination pillow, backpack, neckrest, tablet-holder…uh, thing. Of all the tablets in the video why they had to choose the TouchPad to get dropped is beyond me. Check out the screen shot and video below to see it for yourself.
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The Verge nabs proof of the webOS that never was
In a reveal that harkens back to Derek Kessler’s review of The Windsornot, The Verge got a hold of the mother-load of webOS device pictures and software screenshots of what could have been for our favorite OS. None of which came to fruition, unfortunately. Among the damage are a couple phones, a tablet or three, and a concept device that would have beaten Microsoft to the “Surface” punch. For the webOS-devoted, there’s nothing fun about this read.
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