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Tests showed webOS running twice as fast on an iPad than its native TouchPad
commentsPosted on 22 August 2011 by WebOsArena
It seems like the mismanagement of webOS is something we’ll be hearing about for a long time going forward. The webOS system has been celebrated by tech pundits and users, but just can’t seem to find its way onto quality hardware with reasonable marketing and support behind it. WebOS started out life on dying Palm hardware running on the bottom tier US carrier, Sprint. Out of death, it was bought by HP and put on the TouchPad, which we knew wasn’t the best hardware, but it may have been worse that even we expected.
TheNextWeb is reporting now that HP tested webOS on an iPad 2, and it ran “twice as fast” on the iPad than on the TouchPad. It’s unclear exactly how the testing was done, or how the conclusion was reached as it seems devs tested webOS framework Enyo apps on the iPad, and also tested the full OS on the iPad. Still, it has been confirmed by webOS developers that they were forced to scale back features, and not innovate too far because the TouchPad hardware was so slow and had so many restrictions.
It’s always sad to see promising software mismanaged, and never find a hold, but at the very least we can hope that Matias Duarte can bring some of the webOS magic to Android.
source: TheNextWeb
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I call bull*%$, webOS is super fast on my touchpad. I’m new to webOS but I love it, and it has great hardware behind it awesome job HP, happy to be apart of it
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there are a lot of ‘fails’ in the touchpad software currently.
I picked up 2 32gb models and though I would not say it is horrible it certainly does not keep up with competitors.
yes, it is slow esp with sites that have lots of JavaScript.
after turning all the logging off or too minimum I have better speed with the apps–the device should not have so much logging = slower = poor user experience. that’s software stupidity.
the browser doesn’t feel done yet–can’t handle gdocs, can’t scroll the doc. the playbook’s browser seems much better, and it’s a younger OS. we don’t even have decent bookmarking. and google reader brings it too a crawl. this is a tablet not a phone and it has plenty of power under the hood.
the killer app for a tablet/pad is the browser and this one needs some help.
I’ve had lots of hangs but only one lockup that required a force restart.
the community seems great and I will most likely put preware on this thing, but users should not need too do that for a good speedy tab. . .hell, Android runs very well on 1ghz single core–what, WebOS needs over twice the power to run properly? I call bull on the issue being the hardware. the issue with the touchpad is WebOS.