358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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LVB ◴[12 Oct 25 05:46 UTC] No.45555605[source]▶

HP TouchPad

Just on principle, I'd have liked to see it on the market for more than 49 days! It pains me as an engineer to think of the effort to bring a hardware device to market for such a minuscule run.

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1. ebbi ◴[12 Oct 25 20:20 UTC] No.45561537[source]▶

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webOS was so ahead of its time, and seemed like it would have been a really strong contender to iPad OS.

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