This post brought to you by webOS on Sprint Palm Pre
About 40 years ago someone said "The purpose of software is to sell hardware." The buzz.these days seems to take the opposite view. (Allow me a moment to pause Pandora so I can think...) Amidst abundant speculation on both sides of the fence let me say without hardware ANYsoftware is useless. I've seen many OSs come and go from OS 360 to today and none was ever perfect but they all served their customer base in some way deemed beneficial until they evolved to the next stage. WebOS is a good OS in its infancy. If nurtured and cared for it will grow to maturity and benefit its users. If not it will fade from view.
Apps are a personal thing; what some find valuable are trash to someone else. Except to extend the OS and provide function otherwise not available, apps are what makes hardware do things in which users see value. The fact that every user is different keeps the target moving for developers.
I, personaly, want webOS to succeed. Even in its present state it has the potential to dominate the industry in ways we haven't imagined. Go webOS!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
