webOS remains in the wind and rain

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Zhang Yi Yi Media Consulting Chairman

Tang Xin tactics management consulting analyst

Lamai domestic well-known webOS community chef network head

Since August, fans of operating system webOS have not heard good news. TouchPad's excitement has not yet passed, and HP's former CEO Li Aike gave it a shot at shocking the industry's "abandoned" strategy. Although webOS developers contend that HP is just giving up on webOS-based hardware devices, but the skin is not there, Mao will be attached? This self-consolation argument eventually turned into more doubts.

It is more and more skepticism that HP’s new CEO, Whitman, announced the retention of webOS earlier this week and transformed into an open-source community. However, this still makes many people in the US IT community scoff at them.” This is only a cover-up of a complete failure." Domestic industry players are quite moderate, but the conclusion is similar: the future of webOS remains treacherous.

The only option was also questioned. In fact, only people who believed in miracles believed that Hewlett-Packard was able to find a buyer and sold it at a price close to the $1.2 billion price it acquired webOS that year. "Announcing retention and open source is the only choice HP can now think of." Zhang Yi and Tang Xin also agreed that Whitman's decision. The use of a closed system like Apple, which develops hardware and software at the same time, can create a good ecological environment. It is completely unobtainable for the current HP. Judging from the status quo, I hope to copy Google's successful footprint on Android and become the only formula that HP can learn from.

However, shortly after Whitman announced a new direction for webOS, Chuk von Respark, HP’s senior executive responsible for the webOS developer community, announced his departure. In the previous month, Richard Chris, HP's vice president of global developer relations, resigned and joined Nokia.

Upon hearing this news, Lao Mai stated that before TouchPad announced its intention to introduce China, HP had organized a local developer contact team with great fanfare and had a lot of contacts with well-known third-party developers and developer groups, etc. A series of cooperation steps. However, more than 40 days later, HP announced that it would give up its webOS mobile phones and tablet devices. HP’s Chinese team immediately fell apart, leaving local developers and HP completely disconnected. Today's developers have formed two distinct camps for Whitman's position. One side believes that it will bring webOS to life. One side believes that it is only for Hewlett-Packard to get away in disguised form.

Tang Xin believes that this reflects that some HP executives may not be optimistic about Whitman's new strategy. Whitman only had a big framework in his speech and stated that “we need to look at what webOS can do”. It seems that there is no clear implementation guideline. In addition, the webOS tablet will not be launched until at least 2013. During this period, developers developed Who uses the software? These problems apparently caused Resparks and others to lose confidence.

“Increase the efficiency of building nests and attracting phoenix” In fact, webOS not only needs to regain confidence in the internal, but also attracts other hardware manufacturers to develop products based on this system, and stabilizes the confidence and innovation of software developers. Based on this, HP needs We have shown a firm enough cooperation attitude, as well as stable investment and efficient management capabilities.

Some arguments that due to HP's own hardware vendor background, will make Samsung, HTC and other opponents have doubts. However, Zhang Yi believes that since the Google acquisition of MOTO, Android vendors led by Samsung and HTC have been stuck in the throat. "It's like the blood flowing from the enemy is the enemy." The user experience of Samsung's BADA system is normal. At present, there are only a few models. type. In this case, the user experience of webOS reflects the consistent fluency of design in Europe and the United States. It is one of the few outstanding systems that is worth considering.

Therefore, the aforementioned concerns are still second, and the most critical factor is whether HP has a firm attitude and clear planning. It can come up with better hardware policies and attract Samsung and other manufacturers to "fight."

Tang Xin believes that HP should not be left unguarded, and at the appropriate time, it may release many patents based on webOS, which really attract other hardware manufacturers to cooperate. In addition, after experiencing the initial high pricing of the TouchPad and the high and low prices of the high-end line, HP has taken note of the "low-cost" strategy to take advantage of the market share of mobile devices. Therefore, it is possible to firmly implement this strategy and launch it at an appropriate time in the future. Your own webOS tablet lays the foundation for the market.

Before you run, you must first learn how to use open source. How does webOS compete with the iOS and Android systems that already occupy a lot of hardware devices in a weak posture?

Lamai said that some people in the industry discovered during the discussion that no matter how the hardware is upgraded, the Android system's fluency is still very limited. Therefore, there is a constant competition between Android devices. In terms of the underlying architecture of the system, webOS has a natural advantage, allowing hardware vendors to be more comfortable.

Zhang Yi deeply agrees that Android's increased malware, system instability, and uneven quality of terminals have caused some terminal manufacturers to hesitate when choosing. Zhang Yi suggested that Hewlett-Packard may wish to support developers to launch a series of more fluent applications for office experience, and at the same time focus on the undetermined smart TV system landscape, and vigorously promote differentiated competition with Android.

However, while looking for differentiated competition, some of the most basic aspects of webOS, such as the number of developers, lag far behind both iOS and Android. At present, domestic webOS developers are not linked to their official markets. They only set up an unofficial market on the Internet, and the revenue of 10,000 yuan has become a leader among developers. As a result, the developer team has gradually decreased and webOS has become a minority. Geek personal hobby. No matter what slogan HP calls, these fundamentals are all too much.

Tang Xin pointed out that the performance advantage of webOS lies in only a few small details, which cannot affect the big trend. As Whitman put it, “you must first learn to walk before you run.” The most down-to-earth approach is to establish clarity as soon as possible. The profit model, building a more rigorous application market for security review, etc. Of course, the differentiated competitive space that can be formed is very narrow, unless you find a very precise entry point, otherwise its future is still difficult to see.

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