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The webOS browser is aging but whose fault is it?

I’ve read it before and said it myself. The webOS browser isn’t what it used to be. But what’s to blame? Is it old webOS browser programming? Outdated webkit? Slower processors? Smaller amounts of RAM? Well, it could be all of that but modern web practices aren’t helping things. And that’s a problem for web-OS.

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HP is to Palm as Lenovo is to Motorola…Not Good

Motorola-SPICE-Android-Phone-looks-just-like-the-Palm-Pre1Remember the confusion about what Palm was meant to be and do for HP? I know you do. I’ll spare you the recap.

The Verge has the story today on the similarities between HP/Palm and Lenovo/Motorola. Feel free to cringe along with me and read their story.

Summary: Lenovo is repeating HP’s mistake with their ownership of Motorola.

To those Motorola die-hard fans out there, I’m so, so sorry. I feel your pain.

RIP Motorola (soon)

#webosforever

LuneOS May Stable Release: Café mocha

Welcome to May, LuneOS fans! It’s been over 2 months since our last stable release, but don’t worry: We have been working extremely hard in bringing a lot of updates to the underlying system.

These kinds of upgrades on the lower level of our OS have significant impact and usually lead to some regressions as well. This was one of the reasons why we didn’t have a release last month and the release this month is a bit later than usual. We wanted to iron out some critical bugs first.

Check out what we’ve been up to and get to the builds!

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Resurfaced HP Video Shows webOS Device Concepts

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The video below isn’t exactly new. In fact, it appeared in December 2011 on The Verge as part of a story on HP’s proposed rebranding concept. A rebranding concept which only now is starting to see the light of day with HP’s new Envy line of laptops. That’s the new logo above. The Verge has resurfaced the video and tells the tale of HP’s rebranding.

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