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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
Now this I don't understand. Where is the integration here? webOS is a web-driven platform. None of HP's desktop platforms are; they're all Windows-driven.
--janak
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Depends on what you mean by web-driven. Yes, the primary method for development uses web technologies, but the SDK has been opened up to allow deeper integration with the device.
The integration I'm talking about is having the OS and the hardware being built by the same vendor. Like Apple does and, well, Palm, but not Microsoft. HP wants to own the hardware and the software running on it. WP7 won't give them that, but owning webOS will.
Here's one possible catch: webOS is FAR from being enterprise capable. It's not even close. HP of course is easily as much an enterprise vendor as they are a consumer one. Clearly, webOS as it currently exists is not going to help them at all in the enterprise, and would require a great deal of work to get it into a position where it would. That's one reason, I expect that HP will continue working with Microsoft and others and retain their existing platforms.
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