The "Open webOS on my TouchPad" Haiku Contest: Win a non-webOS gadget of your choice! 450
Yesterday's announcement of HP's intentions to not create a build for Open webOS for the TouchPad made us sad. When we're sad, we express ourselves in haiku form. Don't judge us, we know we're weird with our meter-driven ways. Enough with your judging eyes of judgement! Anyway, once we managed to push through our haiku-addled haze of disappointment, we decided it was time to harness that creative energy and put it to good use: we want you to send a message to HP, and we want you to do it in haiku form.
So here's the deal: we're having a contest! In the comments of this post, submit your haiku entry (we'll be sticking to the tradition 5-7-5 syllabic meter) explaining to HP why they should reconsider their decision to not make Open webOS compatible with the venerable HP TouchPad. Or you can just express your woe and angst over the decision, or what it'll make you do. We want your take on the news, but in haiku form.
And just to make things interesting, the winner's going to receive a prize gadget of their choice, as long as it doesn't run webOS. Yeah, it's a little unorthodox, but it's also to spite HP a bit - if they don't want to give us the update, then we'd be stupid to at least not be looking over our other options. We can only handle this sort of neglect for so long before our friends stage an intervention (again).
Get cracking on those haikus, people! We'll take entries through Tuesday, August 7, and after that we'll post up a poll of the top entries so you all can pick the winner. Everybody's a winner when there's haiku involved, right?
450 Comments
All we are asking
And I hope its not too much.
GiveTouchPad a chance.
TouchPad no new OS?
A turn away from HP -
a bright Jellybean...
Let me get this straight.
You are able to do it.
You just refuse to.
I can't get no O
pen WebOS. For Touchpad
For TouchPad.......TouchPad
My Touchpad ready
HP says no WebOS
Another mistake
Once, twice, and three burns
HP must hate WebOS?
Angry Pandas rise
JellyBean Touchpad
But not Open webOS
Wait a second, WHAT?!?!
A new direction
Open source for WebOS
Touchpad critical
Hp, webos
The never ending story
Printers aren't enough...
Open WebOS
Could be long term success plan
Touchpad for the win
Firesale does not
Make you a loyal buyer
Think beyond yourself
Seasons always change.
Our love for webOS grows.
Like flowers in spring.
killed a pioneer
palm just needed help hp
make devices now
not a race hp?
its a marathon oh yea?
hate to see u race
soo many quotes
stop saying coming months
why do we hold on
ruby had a plan
he was on the right track to win
messed up by big wig
can i sing a song?
Daisy I am half crazy
Touchpad odyssey ends
Open WebOS
So much better than Android
Makes my TouchPad sad
Enter me please.
.
.
WebOS is done
Thou must stride for the future
One that surpass all
HP's guillotine
Leaves me hacking my Touchpad
fans ignored unite!
don't ever leave me
WebOS was there for me
leave and i will die.
My Beloved Pre
Taken Out Out Behind The Shed
Now WebOS As Well?
Smashing user hopes
Of having Open WebOS
Damned are our TouchPad dreams
Sorry WebOS
All of you have been betrayed
I know that feel bro
Chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp!
The sounds of nothing running?
TouchPad should work fine!
Don't be molester,
TouchPad could be upsetter,
Give it the nectar!!
Poetry is hard
Touchpad is the best tablet
My poetry sucks
Sorry for you guys,
Even if not HP one...
My thoughts go to you !
All other platforms
Can't even come close to it
What will we have left?
Android, BB10
Windows Phone 8 coming soon
And iOS? Blah!!
where are devices
for webOS to shine?
No device so must cry...
is there a tie
below webOS's head
sometimes using it means hard to breath
oh webOS
not bad, not bad
but sometimes stress
webOS webOS
sometimes feel bad
hard to use, at last
Touchpad sold in fire
Yet no phoenix we see here
I now say bite me
simple in use
great in move
but just for developers
Dying a slow death
Research in Motion is next
Another farewell
webOS Nation
Has stood through the test of time
We will be ok
They dislike people
HP hates sourcing code
Hate opening up
Open webOS
HP TouchPad possible
Lost priority
Open webOS
HP TouchPad potential
Open is now closed
@HP don't cut the hands.
WTF?? HP are a load of *@#$~$ idiots!
Passive Aggressive
Device Support Theater
We're cast as "The Chumps".
TouchPad is being killed
My Windows phone is getting grilled
WindsOrNot is seeked
H.P. can bite me
For Android shall reign supreme
H.P. will falter!
Through pain and neglect,
Open source was the answer.
Too little too late...
No point anymore now!
WebOS had promise!
There is no more chance!
Had Palm Pre One Time
Build Quality Not Your Mess
Touchpad Support Is
But the Web feels so EMPTY,
Without WebOS.
(replacing the lyrics in Eminem's - Without Me)
samsung galaxy note.
Worms in our apples
Androids peaking through windows
WebOS stolen
HP turn around
Look into my longing eyes
WebOS suprise!
HP's going down,
to the fiery pits of hell,
Well done Apotheker
Look at my Touchpad
Think of friend's Ipad
I feel glad
coz the good is better than the fad
But it's so sad
when WebOs
ignored my lad!
It drives me mad
Please dont do bad
And bring it back
To my TouchPad!
HP travesty
webOS to not be free
score me BlackBerry
Why HP killed me
I no longer see the light
My name Web OS
HP Touchpad sucks
Web OS should be open
HP Must Be Nuts
Quoth HP, `Nevermore.'
Then we asked why, why is that ?
HP said `Nevermore.'
HP gave me hope
WebOS is simply dope
Open WebOS nope
I hoped for the best
Ignored all the rest, Touchpad
Is left in the cold
Said no to the old
So I must Rock a B Bold
No options for pre 4 or 5
HP I'll let go
You let me down to to to
Many times to stay
No update for my pre3 and touchpad!
I have to buy a bb10 device which one i love also!
Web-OS power gone
No Touchpad, no tablet, huh?
H-P wrong again.
Open webOS
Hewlett Packard had the chance
Now you hear the rants
Open webOS
Will a miracle ensue
Where is Adora
Is webOS dead
According to Adora
No and never will
Meet you at display.
Entertainment; while fall, rise and fall again.
Tomultuous disappointment; Why Open webOS?
webOS CE
Thanks webOS Internals
and webOS Ports
HP pulls os
Kevin, Phil, Rene, Dan laugh
Derek drinks bad scotch.
A Revolution
Primative and imperfect
Stay thirsty my friends
My love was complete
You won't compete on open
So hello Thorstin
First you buy up Palm
Then you gut it and dump it
Shame on you HP
Open WebOS
Redemption for the faithful?
Or glove with no Palm?
Opening the door
With a piece of our magic
Out, a new machine
Palm! Former thumb kill.
HP: "Buy!", and aqui-hire.
Like the Zuck, evil!
Can't you see HP?
What is the matter with you
WebOS is great.
Will you never learn?
Release Open WebOS
for the TouchPad Tabs!
As the days grow dark
The TouchPad goes away soon
So do the users
TouchPad great specs has,
Still open webOS wont get now,
HP just lost a fan.
Ready to move on?
Don't screw this up even more,
WebOS lives on!
Open WebOS?
No. HP, like dinosaurs
Failing to adapt
Open webOS.
HP TouchPad potential.
Open is now closed.
Thanks for stealing mine
Wrote prior to heyzeusspeaks
Proof is in pudding
40 comments up
Also on CB website
As 550WHAT
8/4/twenty12
@ 22:21
heyzeusspeaks pulls heist
Throughout this nation
A thief strikes across the web
Who falls victim next
Biters wanna bite
But they can't take what is mine
You'll get your's in time
Wrong way dear HP!
When will you learn the right way?
Right now is the time!
Look at you, HP,
Look at what you have caused us,
All these tears, and grief.
Open is now closed
My TouchPad becomes Android
Not why I bought it
Open, not open
Community Edition
But, I thought you cared
Open yet still closed
We lack resources and time
It's time to move on
webOS entangled in its own web!!!
Hp needs to realise that bottom-up strategies need to start taking place
webOS requires,
some devices to live in.
the tribe it admires.
my roots: ZEN-of-Palm
dev's and tribe: second to none
need love to survive.
ALTN:
my roots: ZEN-of-Palm
dev's and tribe: second to none
need device to survive.
web OS is faint
What will it take to save it?
Meg crushed its last hope
Hardware now software
Web OS follows Amiga sad path
Slow decline with time
Without webOS
Our progress at a stand still
We must look elsewhere
WebOS, oh woe
What will we do without you
Buy a PlayBook now
Seduced and abandoned
But not all love lost and forgot
webOS return
Here for the contest
why is it I am so broke?
I want a pureview
:)
HP company
You owe me for the laptop
Didn't last a year
I have failed machines.
WebOS, BeOS, gone.
I sadly move on.
And on a side note, I have primarily used all these OSes that have OS in them (I dont' stick with mainline OSes I guess) and they always get pushed out by others. OS/2, BeOS, webOS. :-(
Can I have tablet?
apple, android, bb10,
wish I had more choice.
A new Bold To Hold
Until Blackberry 10 Lives
Since my Bold is old
Oh HP...Not Again...
If this is what you wanted...
Why buy WeboS in the first place?
Once an OS was running fine...
Till HP got the dollar in line...
For WebOS, 'twas sleeping time....
TP is lonely
WebOS gone away
TP is lonely
Oh HP, are you mad!?
WebOS, a unique card
Rashly swiped away
It is elegant
misfortunate webos
keep all the faithful
you did it once again
you have been unfair once again
oh hp why once again
Will I ever see
Amazing webOS on
touchpad from hp?
Still Hewlett Packard,
We'll no longer watch this space.
Soon, like Compaq be.
HP HP Oh What Shall I do
I have all this money for new WebOS devices
But I will not be giving it to you!
build for the users...
build for the future users...
build for the masses...
Strike deep, true haiku,
Let us by novelty means,
Show Meg a true heart.
Open is closed
Richard Stallman is raging
Fans are dismayed
hp is silly
open webOS is key
please reconsider
Breaking news. Once again
HP has proved they dont care.
And now on to sports.
Open webOS
Would you like to Touch my Pad?
But alas, you can't.
Reading these haikus
Takes more effort than HP
Put in the TouchPad
Oh such a large blow
Words feared I hoped to avoid
HP saying no
Open web to grow
TouchPad will not be John Doe
We will not take no
First, the news about
Santa, then Easter Bunny.
Now TouchPad. I'm done.
Hey I just read this
And this is very crazy
Open source, maybe??
TouchPad. Beautiful.
No open webOS. What?
Beauty, but defeat.
We had such high hopes
Alas webOS is no more
Bleak winter awaits
From Pre to Android
It's bigger but confusing.
Is this App open?
HP is so smart, they know mobile is not the future, its toasters!
HP killed TouchPad.
At gunpoint, I scrawl this poem
To win an iPad
This Anger I feel
Die Hp please die HP
You kill hence you die
Dear Hewlett-Packard,
We could've been so much more.
- Sent from my TouchPad
Great products don't stay
great without continual
support and updates.
They mock us more now
Touchpad's angry bird swipe crys
Wishing for good news
For our webOS
Hope a mere flick'ring candle
As time drips away
You inspired us,
You reinvented us, thus
#Don'tKillWebOS
Oh Palm and HP
The most beautiful software
But hardware is key!
Others catching up.
Come rapture in September?
News, need toy today.
From its death reborn,
Today stabbed but one more time,
TouchPad immortal.
A little explanation:
First line says how Touchpad was reborn (post fire sale) when it died at the hands of HP..
Second line: Stabbed as in how its not getting its long expected Open WebOS..
And the last presents how it has go on to become immortal in the community and history of tech..
Hope you like that :D
Palm was for humans
Our mobile hopes were shattered
This summer, dreams died
HP promised much
Delivered less, still buggy
WebOS now gone
Beautiful new tech
Never fulfilled it's promise
Darkness coming now
Haters gonna hate.
webOS faithful stay strong.
webOS rises...
US Robotics
became Palm, tap tap, so good,
now HP destroys
open source so hard
webOS no port for us
HP doesn't care
I try to write a
cheerful haiku with my pre
each one comes out sad
Hoping for WebOS
What do I find in HP?
Mediocrity
HP was our bane.
webOS held back by chain.
Homebrew saves again!
- OR -
Leo had no brain.
webOS held back by chain.
Homebrew saves again!
As for a message to HP:
HP, what you do?
No new webOS for you!
TouchPad open too!
Personally, I like the 1st one the best because of how AWESOME our webOS homebrew community is! Seriously, where would we be without them?!?!?
OPEN SOURCE HAIKU 1
Stopping webOS
Open source a bad idea
HP will lose fans.
OPEN SOURCE HAIKU 2
Left in the darkness,
Abandoned by HP staff
My Touch Pad is lost.
OPEN SOURCE HAIKU 3
Faithful HP fans
Bought a promising tablet
Open Source ended that.
OPEN SOURCE HAIKU 4
HP consumers
Bought Touch Pads trusting HP
The joke is on us.
TouchPad! Elated!!!
Open WebOS: Closes.
touchpad...depression...
Ecosystem fail
Open WebOS Touchpad
More honorable
It's disappointing
HP shows no loyalty
For Touchpad users
Perhaps this contest
Will act as a wake up call
and change HP's mind
Was skeptical when
we did see the Youtube clip:
Amazing ad: Meg