Richard Kerris talks about TouchPad and Homebrew on Fox Business Network 91
In another feel-good video for webOS developers, users and stakeholders, Richard Kerris (VP of webOS Developer Relations) has appeared on the Fox Business Network to talk about the TouchPad and why he believes webOS is set in a good position to battle the behemoths of iOS and Android in the tablet market. Besides the shout-out to homebrew that has everyone talking (read it after the break), Kerris went on to talk about the future of webOS, which includes webOS-powered printers and notebook computers next year, and explains that while the app catalog might be small now, it won't be long before developers will start seeing their apps on millions of devices around the world.
By the end of the video, we get the idea that HP is trying to fill "the space in between". Kerris dismisses the idea that PC's (HP's big money maker) are a thing of the past, and that iOS/Android will continue to be the leaders just because they have a head start. It's not about being Number 1 in tablets, or smartphones or personal computers: it's about positioning webOS to become Number 1 in all of those markets, and more.
Jump after the break to read some of what Kerris said or click the link below to watch the video and see the rest (we're looking for a video to embed here - FBN is giving us problems). With a week left until the launch of the TouchPad, it's good to see more high profile interviews floating around.
I don’t think Android has done a great job with the honeycomb of tablets. There’s a lot of fragmentation for example, and developers are frustrated. And of course Apple makes great products. But I think the way we look at it ourselves is in one area it's a closed kind of walled garden, and it’s beautiful, but it’s walled and it’s their way or the highway. And you have the other area which is kind of the wild wild west, and it’s fragmented and it’s anything goes. And that’s kind of frustrating to developers.
And here we come in the middle. We make our own hardware. We make our own software, and by providing a confident and consistent environment for both developers and customers, they are going to have an experience of one they will really like. But we’re not afraid to open up too. We support what we call the homebrew community which allows you to go off the beaten path if you want and explore other areas. And some phones or tablets will call that jailbreaking, but not us, we actually think that's great to do. So I think we have a nice spot in the middle here.
Source: Fox Business Network (Video); Via: Chris McKillop (Twitter)
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Drivel. To your average consumer he was speaking in a foreign language. Buzz word after buzz word without explanation.
Wrong. It was very well said with easy to understand analogies. Name the buzzwords.?.
Exactly. How many average consumers watch the business channel?
I am pretty sure that not every single interview, advertisement, video or media sound bite has to cater to the lowest common denominator with regard to terminology. HP appears to be appealing to a wide range of user types. Nothing wrong with that - FWIW I understood the buzzwords and so did many others, so it looks like if nothing else this interview "spoke" to some of us.
Buzzword after buzzword without explanation? Did we even watch the same video?
The interview was spot on. Only wish the cameraman focused on the tablet when Richard was showing it off to help explain Synergy.
In the incredibly short time he had to explain the terminology, advantages and differentiators of WebOS, he did a fine job.
Synergy - demonstrated visually and verbally "ties together all the elements together of your digital life...email, photos, calendar, contacts". What were you expecting in 5 seconds, a technical explanation? Wrong audience.
Wireless updates - verbal
Flash Support - verbal, and with a memorable quote "we're not afraid of any websites, Flash"
Openness - verbal, not wild wild west (this will resonate with everyone, whether they understand the analogy or not), not walled garden (explained as "it's beautiful but closed...our way or the highway", again, this cliche will resonate with everyone. He also gives props to Apple, sign of respect, but also remember he came from Apple. Jailbreaking vs. Homebrew explanation was great as well.
Answered final question around PC market losing relevance, a market HP dominates in, with pure genius spin "it's about the space in between them all". This changes the interviewers question what could be seen as a potential loss of revenue for HP (if you agree with his assertion that tablets/smartphones will replace laptops), to one of strength, focusing on what really matters -- the connectivity between them all.
Seamless connectivity - verbal, "we don't use cables for synchronization". I was hoping he would have added "We don't even use cables for charging!", but that is not entirely true depending on whether you are talking about it from the point of view of the device or the touchstone.
I am surprised the interviewer didn't ask a single question about the number of apps. I would like to have seen how Richard would have handled that question.
He did say the apps are few now, but "just you wait"
Yes, I believe it is only a matter of time. 10%+ market/mind share is just around the corner. [please no 'coming months' jokes!]
Wow idiots a plenty and you are one of them.
HOMERUN!
This was a nice interview...
I think HP is doing a good job with good intent...
I do think they will need some time to generate the agility to crankout awesome hardware like samsung..
but then again personally for me their intent seems good, the way they support homebrew and also trying to balance the needs of the enterprise to the needs of the customers is good...
Commercial success or failure doesn't take away the fact that this OS is beautiful..Personally for me I will keep on using it even if there is only one equipment left in the world......
Computer history is littered with beautiful technologies, that has been left in the dust by inferior ones (or their successors), but ones that were able to break through and commercialize.
Commodore Amiga, OS2, NeXT Computer, Amstrad CPC/PCW range, HD DVD, ...
I like their PR and marketing activities so far. They really impress.
They clearly differentiate themselves from the other contenters.
The system has been beautiful ever since...now it's time to be recognised.
I am looking forward to what will be coming out next...
Synergy on a PC? 7 inch Tablet? Slab High end phone? Bring it on.
"I like their PR and marketing activities so far. They really impress."
....reeeeeealyyyy, they do, do they? Comparing to which competitor, care to answer?
It actually IS good. He gave a reason for existing - the space inbetween - the spot in the middle.
Apple has gone from cool to mass brand.
Android is for the technically astute.
Also you might say that they are doing really well PR-wise, getting air time on FoxNews, don't you think?
Maybe it's how short the interview is, but..
OMG!!! So many terms with no actual explanation..
The average consumer has no idea (or doesn't care) what a 'walled garden' or the 'wild-wild-west' is actually refering to..
His description of Synergy was poor..
Doesn't explain the benefits of Homebrew...
Last but not least, he didn't even demonstrate how wonderfully WebOS handles multitasking!!!
I agree, if you see the whole interview it was bad. You hardly even get to see the most important thing, the tablet and the OS and how great it is.
I do want to buy Richard Kerris a mirror though so he and HP can take a long look at themselves, it was amazing to see him call out companies for thing HP has done, only much worse.
Richard, Android is no good, but no one has scr*wed over developers more than WebOS. You guys are responsible for killing developer interest in your products. How many times have you guys hit the reset button on Developers and what they need to use to develop????
Also, you define fragmentation one way, I define it another. None of your products are on the same page. Webos 1.4, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0. You will have 4 different versions of your OS on products that are 2 years old at the most. None of your products are on the same page.
Also nice to see him give love to homebrew when it benefits him, but watch the other hand as they continue to shut it down for their precious enterprise customers.
I really dislike hypocrisy Rich.
Hypocrisy? Hilarious coming from you.
As of now, the homebrew community has done incredible work bringing parity to the platform specifically by creating ways to bring hardware that was never intended to be around as long as it has to the 2.1 iteration. So Richard gives them credit for this. You complain.
The Pre 2 has officially gotten the 2.1 build. Why don't ask Verizon what took so long? They own the network not HP. This brings two of the three released phones to 2.1 with homebrewed Pres accounting for the last one.
The Touchpad comes out next week and until then there are no products on the market with 3.0 on them. The Pre 2 on up is capable of supporting 3.0. HP even thought enough to make sure 3.0 scales from small screens to large to make sure the developers do one build instead of two. Can you give them some credit for that?
I didn't state anything that hasn't been covered in this site before. Did you forget on purpose to try to make a point or do you skip the positive news by instinct?
"As of now, the homebrew community has done incredible work bringing parity to the platform specifically by creating ways to bring hardware that was never intended to be around as long as it has to the 2.1 iteration."
Am I right in thinking that your refer to the Spring Pre and ATT/VZW Pre Plus here?
If so, think about the fact that the (so called whiny) Sprint users that bought the first round JUST got off contract and those of us that bought first round on ATT still have a year to go on our contracts. Are you saying that these phones weren't meant to be around for the duration of the contract?
I know people who are still happy with a Moto Razr and other phones from 5 and 6 years ago, but I guess a year is now a long time to keep using the same phone.
There's not much I can say about Sprint's decision to not support other iterations of webOS. It's a sensitive issue here and I believe there's plenty of blame to go around for Sprint and HP on this.
I admit that the Pre could've been a more forward-looking piece of hardware . I hold Sprint accountable for not picking up the Pre 2. For a company that needs to keep it's users, it pretty foul that they would dare loyal customers to leave or mandate they pick something else.
This makes that rumor of specialized phone sound very HTC Evo 4G-ish. Again it's just a rumor.
I imagine a 5-6 year old Moto Razor was immaculately kept to be working now. The folks in these forums are willing to make tweaks and adjustments in their hardware to get the most out of them. The point R.Kerris made is that HP encourages this. It's significant statement considering what iPhone users and some Android users have to contend with.
Pre
You're seriously faulting Sprint for not jumping on a handset that was the sequel to one that they were still getting rid of and doing multiple replacements of, plus less than SIX MONTHS later, HP holds a big press event to announce the sequel, thereby depressing interest in the Pre 2?
Sprint is not "daring customers" to leave. They're doing everything feasible to keep them, but expecting them to throw good money after bad is silly.
You might as well fault them for giving up on the Instinct line after the Instinct HD came out.
Yes, I'm faulting them for not listening to a base of users(small but passionate) that are on this forum and on Sprint's. Maybe you can explain to those Sprint users how they are doing everything feasible to keep them?
I figure that Sprint would be working hand in hand with HP to ensure they "make it right". Rubenstein said he would,what did the CEO of Sprint say?
Sprint owes nothing to a "small but passionate" base. I'm sick of people laying the blame for the Pre's failure at the feet of Sprint. The follow up to the EVO 4G came out roughly a year later. Pre- owners are still holding on to ancient, underpowered and outdated hardware.
Sprint made the RIGHT choice by getting out of the HP/Palm business and getting into the HTC business.
i think Sprint is on its way out. God help them if they have to move to tiered plans. Just my 2 cents.
Sprint owes nothing to me; likewise, I owe nothing to Sprint now that my contract has expired. If they want to keep me, they need to provide more than Blackberry and Android.
Plain and simple.
Sprint isn't innocent. They had their reasons for their decisions, and I don't blame them for passing on the Pre+. But aside from the name and overall form factor, the Pre2 and Pre3 are *not* the same as the original Pre and to assume so is fallacy.
Have you picked up a Veer? It feels rock solid. And for the record, my June 2009 Pre minus is holding up just fine and WebOS 2.1 rocks.
I have picked up a Veer, and after 7 seconds I put it back down and shook my head.....just like everyone else outside of this forum is doing with the Veer.
and despite what you may think, the general public will look at the pre2 and pre3 (assuming they even care about pres) and think..."same phone, same lack of apps, no thanks, pass."
I grabbed the Veer and loved it... it does feel rock solid and quite fast; I don't get one for two reasons, I'm not willing to pay AT&T prices, at least not until it is 100% confirmed that the pre3 is not coming to Spring, then I will make the change.
I do not want to make this a veer thread, but in my experience visiting AT&T and Best Buy stores in three different cities (2 states), the sales representative are NOT saying anything good about the veer, it is almost as if they are being paid to ignore it and bad mouth it. I got into an argument with a sales girl in Boise, the first thing that came out of her mouth when I asked about the Veer was "Why would you switch to such a horrible OS?"; really... i mean REALLY??? I will respect whoever doesn't like the OS, in the end we all have our preferences, but if the people who knows nothing about the Veer are getting this kind of intro about it, it is not going to sell, no matter how passionate we are. I still think HP has to push harder to get people to know the goodness of the OS and in this case, how great the Veer is. Yes I said GREAT!! :-)
I will be leaving Sprint for webOS. Sprint is, in part--not solely--to blame. Some will stay, others will leave as I am. It is up to Sprint to decide how many customers they can afford to lose.
Sprint isn't worried about 12-15 people who will leave because they're not carrying WebOS. they're concerned with the hundreds of thousands of people who continue to migrate to Android.
I forgot, HP has been great to their webOS customers and developers. They have never done anything to scr*ew them over. Oh yeah, and all phones are running 2.1 now, you are right a majority of users are not stuck on 1.4 with no future updates.
You are also right about the slow updates being verizons fault and not HP. HP has a lot of leverage with the goodwill they have built up with thier customers and carriers. I remember iOS users having to 3 months for an update apple announced was ready to go.
Fanboys are all the same.
Put a sock in it. My goodness HP just acquired Palm. You folk act as if they have been in the smartphone business for eons. Owning their OS etc. Kudos to them up to this point. they have made mistakes but who doesn't. Is Apple and Android oh so perfect. And what about all the naysayers like you who sometime ago had nothing but gloom and doom predictions about Android and even iphone.
We are fortunate that innovation isn't driven by whinny side of the road critics like yourselves. If webOS fails well it was a business risk. Is it the end of the techworld no. I dare say with a billion dollars invested HP is in it to win.
Some of the greatest products and services we have today started with the odds stack against them and critics like the ones that frequent Precentral. Thank God we don't live and die by you guy's point of view. Give it a rest will ya.
Come on, please. Sound surprised at his post?? Obviously Kerris did something personally or professionally to GlenBeck. No matter the subject or news he talks about Kerris, obviously on an interview to him what would you expect? He might or not be right is his hatred but obviously dont ask for objectivity there. Many trolls and fanboys here, wish we could ignore users like we ignore spam apps. There is a lot of good learning from good and bad comments, but not from people who see always things good or always see things bad.
"(...)specifically by creating ways to bring hardware that was never intended to be around as long as it has to the 2.1 iteration"
what the heck are you talking about? So called "legacy devices" are; 1st perfectly capable of running 2.0, thus disproving lies as why HP backed up from releasing 2.0 for the older devices for performance reasons, and 2nd, THEY WERE "intended to be around (...) to the 2.1 iteration", until HP did u-turn and **** us naive users, believing in their promises (Rubinstein: "webOS 2.0 will be released to legacy devices before end of 2010") - welcome fragmentation!
For me, they have a lot to prove, until I buy another webOS device, until I write again a single line of code for webOS. I am missing it, but I will rather invest my time and money into a platform that is backed by a companies that are a) credible b) not only improve their product "for the future", behind closed doors, but also communicate what is coming, and most importantly - keep up to the promises.
I cannot understand how on earth a person, who has repeatedly promised something to customers, and then failed to deliver big time (Rubinstein), is kept at the steering wheel. I just don't get it. Care about your credibility, HP? Care that your "face" for the customers is a person, who lost his credibility, and completely?
Yeah, exactly. I have a UK Pre2 and I had 2.1 a while ago.
There are too many people in the Palm space that seem to be good for nothing other than complaining, whining and being generally negative. So tiresome.
Apple and Android don't bother explaining most of their terms either. AT&T has been crappy and dropping calls since the iPhone launched but sales has been thru the roof. The point is the average user doesn't care about terms or what not. They just want a device that pleases their eye and satisfy their need, somewhat.
No explanation needed. "Walled garden" is iOS and "Wild wild west" is Android. His target audience understood perfectly.
Multitasking on Android is almost none existence. iOS multitasking sucks ( if you asked me) but yet both Android and iOS are doing much better than webOS; which is the best multitasking mobile/tablet OS out there.
The average user doesn't really care about all the jargon/terms.
Just my thoughts :-)
Homerun!!! Glad we still have intelligent bloggers alive and well.
"Apple and Android don't bother explaining most of their terms either."
...reeeaaalyyy, they don't?? What planet you live on, so that you missed hundreds of Apple TV adverts, focusing on single aspect of iOS/application/device, explaining what can you do with it and how? How deep in the woods are you living, and for how long, that you have missed "Droid does" campaign, which actually did put Android on the map???
sheesh..
I guess people are not capable of understanding analogies. I guess people are not capable of "seeing" what his words say.... Come on people.... Lighten up a bit on all this minute criticism.
They do if they use iPhone or Android. Users wonder why apps that are on Android are not on iPhone. User wonder why they have to have anti-virus software on Android phones and Apple users don't.
Can you explain Synergy in 5 seconds?
iPhone developers wish they could tweak iOS with Apple's blessing like the homebrew developers have with webOS.
He was switching tile the whole time...how many youtube videos and commercials are there that show webOS multi-tasking?
@ monkykikkr did you notice that it was a very short interview. He did a great job. I suppose you would have done a better job. With an interviewer who is pelting you with questions on how can this device beat its competitors. It was a spot not a full fledge get to know the device.
Walled garden: it's beautiful but you are trapped and limited by it's walls.
Wild wild west: one of the oldest expressions out there that basically means anything goes without thought or consequence.
Maybe less computing and more thinking is in order?
It was in a business program. Not a gadget show. Come on.
It's a pain to have to connect an iPad to your computer to update. "With webOS you can update anywhere, even on the beach." I think that will peak some interest. Also, mentioning being open to Homebrew is good. But I agree he should have gone into multitasking more. Jumping from one app to another on iPad is terrrible.
Good luck HP TouchPad!
Yeah, that works now, but in two months you will not have to connect your iPad to update. Maybe he doesn't know that.
Who was doing that from the jump? You'd be surprised to hear so many people surprised that iPhone don't update over the air. It's a given for everyone else except Apple.
Ok....but again, they've already announced a solution coming fairly soon. It's amazing that people around here want to counsel patience for everything WebOS is missing and claim HP should be given should be given a year or more to get things going with WebOS, but Apple should be criticized for announced fixes that aren't here TODAY.
Apple is above criticism now?
HP is supposed to do everything that Apple is doing according to certain people to be successful, right? Isn't ironic to see Apple validating a feature of webOS by adding to what has been called the most important iteration of iOS?
I want to ask a question. Is Apple God? This Blog is called Precentral. Maybe soon with the Touchpad coming out it will be called webOScentral but we are fans of webOS. I don't mind constructive criticism. But some of you are beginning to sound like complete **** Just go over to TipB or whatever it is called and troll over there. All you all ever do is **** complain.
Yep & just as Steve Jobs got loud applause for this announcement at the WWDC, I am sure the media will carry Apple's water & act as though they invented the cloud & synching w/o wires.
The real question is have you & others been on the Apple blogs complaining about having to plug into a computer every time they needed to do something when the rest of the industry was already using the cloud--for over 2 years!
It's amazing how true to his name he really is!
Please stand In front of an apple flag and start to cry as you talk about how much you love your counmpry. ...and post the vid.
how is jumping from one app to another on iPad much different than the TouchPad?
On iPad :
- tap home button, tap app icon.
or
- double tap home button, select recently used app from list
On TouchPad :
- tap home button or swipe up, swipe left / right if necessary, tap app
the only real difference in task switching is that you see a visual representation of the app in the card view instead of just an icon.
And the app stays live on the touchpad. I also like having a preview window with the app miniaturized to just tap on instead of having to go full screen each time.
Interesting. It would have been nice if I would have known about the double tap before now. Apple didn't make that very clear. I still feel the visual representation and grouping is better, but at least it was good to find this out.
I guess you find out all kind of things at precentral.
I think there is a big difference. iPad apps do not automatically benefit from it's pseudo multi-tasking environment. They have to be programmed internally for this. As a result, some apps restart once they've been "minimized". A true multi-tasking OS will not put the burden on the application. Web pages (at least on Safari...I haven't tried any third-party browsers) refresh after bringing the browser back up. This was a major disappointment after loading several articles to read for a plane trip only to discover that when they attempted to refresh themselves they had no connection and therefore lost the article.
Near as I can tell, iOS apps running "in the background" do not run other than a few utilizing special services (like the sound) that allows some aspects to truly run. Otherwise, the apps are suspended. webOS apps truly run. I can start loading a web page and go to another app while my browser continues to load content.
WebOS does the same thing with web pages. At least on the Pre minus.
No it doesn't... unless you close the card, silly pants!!!
RK "We’re not afraid of any websites or flash sites, things like that..."
That's powerful and funny at the sametime.
In such a short segment, it is probably hard to articulate all of the webOS goodness. I think he did just fine.
awesome. until they have 10 devices out across multiple carriers all running different versions of webOS.. some get updated.. some take an extra 6 months. then they license webOS out to Samsung and maybe a couple more OEMs.. they make their own hardware and tweak the software making more fragments. apps work fine on some devices, not on others.. users get frustrated.. devs get frustrated trying to support them...
I agree. We have 3 version of webos's Mojo to support with (1.4.5, 2.x, and 3.x), Enyo - which only works on the TouchPad just now (last I checked, there's no progress on the Phone version which offers the level of program once, fit all that they promised), and the SDK which is still somewhat hardware specific. The only thing consistent is the lack of API's for hardware that would really make unique app possible (USB & Bluetooth for example).
There is no focal point to WebOS. Most users are at 1.4.5 or some close iteration. Some eager beavers are at one of two versions of 2.0. And the future is 3.0 which has no users.
You're driving the Freeway with a painted windshield when most of your customers are in a place that is no longer supported. A few of your advanced products use a version that is just a couple of months from the scrap heap. And none of your customers are running the state of the art.
Where are the developers supposed to aim? Show of hands developers, where are you supposed to be aiming? What's gonna feed your kids, make your car payment, pay your wireless bills?
Most of the blame for WebOS fragmentation is caused by the cell phone carriers since the existing contracts REQUIRE the individual carriers to sign off on/approve any update, and AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint have not signed off on WebOS 2.1, even though O2 in Europe DID approve it for release.
It may be that the carriers are waiting for the Pre 3 to be released so they don't have to worry about NEW users trying to update their devices and running into support problems. By supporting WebOS devices currently, they also are REQUIRED to help users download the devices to their computers, install save/restore on the phone, run it, then download and run WebOS Doctor for 2.1. Would you want to support that on CURRENTLY sold devices, or on devices that are no longer sold, so you have a smaller user base? Or would they just say to go to the nearest store, where the employees have never used a WebOS based device(AT&T and Verizon DID ignore them pretty much from launch).
HP could have done something about these things, but chose not to. Providing a "pre-Doctor" app for the phone that would automatically upload the data to their profile in preperation for the update would solve the whole problem(upload data, turn off backup automatically if needed, make sure the phone stops checking for e-mail, then show a message that it is ready to be Doctored). Once you have installed the 2.1 image, there would be a post-Doctor app already on the device which you would run to restore your data. That would be a fairly direct way to resolve the potential problems with doing a WebOS Doctor in the first place(data loss), they wouldn't need to do TOO much playing with the database entries in the profile, and so on.
i love the bits about iOS, android, and homebrew, and how webOS is right in the middle of them all.
Nice interview.
Why do so many here keep expecting full blown tech reviews and tech type presentations on a BUSINESS news channel during a BUSINESS interview? The target audience on CNBC and FBN is not tech nation, it's biz/investor nation.
OMG! Exactly what I was thinking :-)
Well, the core audiences of these two channels do fall under the tech savvy flag. And they didn't say p**p about what WebOS or TP means for HP's bottom line. The whole thing was pretty soft core on both disciplines. I guess, its some token mindshare at the very least.
Im not going to nick pick this, it's good either way for it is getting the brand name out there. SCORE!
Not to nit pick, but it's nit pick, not nick pick. :-)
One of my friends made a similar mistake on her Facebook post the other day, only she wrote "Knick" pick. That made me think of the NBA draft for NY.
No I really meant nick pick, my brand ;) Try to keep grammar corrections to term pappers :)
Term "pappers"? Lol. I see what you did there.
"I don’t think Android has done a great job with the honeycomb of tablets. There’s a lot of fragmentation for example, and developers are frustrated."
I hope that means everything will soon run on WebOS 3.x, at least the HP branded products (I know it would be nice to have the Pres and Pixis on 3.x too, but let's hope that once Pre3 is on WebOS 3.x, the homebrew community will make it happen for the older phones)
In the coming months...
The vote down wasn't necessary. It's true that that Hp screws legacy owners with that quote.
This is a genius way to market the TouchPad and further distinguish it from the iPad/iPad2 and the countless Android tablets.
I think webos can easily compete with Android, but It's going take hard work and good marketing to compete with IOS.
The truth is, everyone and their mother has heard of the ipad. So if someone is ready to spend $500 on a tablet they will go to BB or wherever and they are going to see the Ipad2, which is thinner and already has a very good reputation, and they are going to see the touchpad, which they've never even heard of before but from the looks of it they see it's thicker. Your average consumer will of course go for the ipad2 because it has the reputation.
I think HP made a mistake by releasing the tablets at the same price as Apple. If they came in about $100-$150 cheaper, people would be more likely to give it a chance.
The other mistake HP is making is they are not including a touchstone with the purchase of a touchpad. Therefore newbies don't even get the full experience of wireless charging and exhibition mode.
If the first version of the touchpad came in at $350-$400 with a touchstone then they would make more sales. The 2nd thinner touchpad could then come in at the same price as the ipad because by that time the touchpad will have a reputation.
That said... where's the pre 3 on sprint already?
I liked the interview...It did suck that the camera man neglected to watch him while he was actually manipulating the Touchpad. Whatever. Overall it seemed really confident, which is a big plus in my book.
LIKE A BOSS!!
Are people seriously complaining about this interview being bad....or are people just trolling because they're bored?
Great interview for the small amount of time given on Kerris' part....(of course more actual Touchpad screen time would've helped as well) but Kerris' and the interviewer did a nice job.
My take is the people who did not understand his interview and thought there were too many buzz words are the crowd more likely to be watching the cartoon network or comedy central than they are to be watching Fox Business.
Link to video here:
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1020795485001/h-p-tablet-hopes-to-make-a-...
Can't get past my hate for all things Faux News related.
It was a short straight forward business piece. Get a hold of yourself and quit trying to save your world.
Kinda happy the pulled JR from doing spots. Kinda mad that I had to give fox news a hit, but owell. Last thought....that interviewer was comical.
Just watched the video again trying to find the buzz words and jargon.
I can't find it. Can someone please fill me in on where it is?
Apparently, the terms "Walled Garden", "Wild Wild West" and "Synergy" are too buzz wordyish for the first commenter, even though Rich explains the first and third terms in the video (does the 2nd term really need explaining?)
But it is ok for Apple to use terms like "Retina Display" and "FaceTime"
>>>We support what we call the homebrew community which allows you to go off the beaten path if you want and explore other areas. And some phones or tablets will call that jailbreaking, but not us, we actually think that's great to do.
Got to love it!
I believe HP is not focus in what they are suppose to be doing with this software, they are far behind on the race even though that the best software on the Market is the WebOs, HP hasn't explode all the potential of it, closing the doors to 3rd parties developers and not investing time in giving a Webos a new face something refreshing; look the honeycomb as example there so many things they can do with the base cards system, they should create widgets make the physical size of the phone a little larger and give more support to developers, definitely not on the right direction and late with their gadgets
very disappointed with the transition I thought by now the system would it be in better shape than it is,
You realize this video is about a tablet and not a phone right?
And why does WebOS need a new face? It does not. By all account Honeycomb is less then stellar....how is that new face working out?
Widgets? really? don't want to turn webos into Android.
And the rest of our post is even more off base.
PC has been getting beat on every story by webosroundup for the past 2 weeks now.
Great video. And I love Anything Fox news related :-)
Is that Kevin Bacon interviewing Jeff Goldblum?
Well, after watching the video, and trying to put myself in the shoes of someone who never heard of webOS or it's features, I don't know... I really don't know who was addressed in that interview, and things specific to webOS were mentioned by name, but not explained at all. I agree with commenters saying "one buzzword after another".
There were good pieces, too: "you can be on a beach, and updating your software". For God's sake, HP, that is something that people unfamiliar with webOS will understand and appreciate, straight away. "Synergy", "built from the scratch for web", "shipping two netbooks every second", "homebrew" - that is blabber for anyone but a handful of webOS die-hards, who certainly are NOT the target audience for that kind of interview.
Richard Kerris, sir, you have been asked what is your game plan against bigger (adoption), established competitors. You have failed to address that question in a meaningful way, in my humble opinion.
You guys better be prepared with some good answers for this questions, because "in the coming months", you will be asked this questions a lot. And depending on your answers, lack of them, and doings (where are TV adverts for TP, Pre3 - in the coming months? On the net? Seriously?) developers will invest their time and money in webOS, or not.
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I love my pre. I am one of the original purchasers on sprint and owners and I love my pre (antique). I am on sprint and I am good for another year before I figure out where to go next..but it wont be droid or iphone. I had to purhase an Asus Slate because HP took so long on the touchpad....but I keep waiting..perhaps in a year I will go for touchpad..but I love my pre. That really ought to count for something. I am loving all the hype by HP and all the new fangle whatevers they are doing..it warms the cockles of my heart...I have geeked out my Pre so I can: read books (pReader), listen to NPR(Dr. Podder), do intelligent lists (Crypto Lists), get zipcodes (zipcodestools) figure out my congres person (Your Congress) and do the correct thing about tipping(tip 'em) at the best restaruant in any city I travel in(Yelp), oh do post it notes with inspirational quotes (Desktop Notes). Really, the pre is the best...soon I will have the best tablet..but the Slate will do until then.