I just posted over there and was warned that android is the ?A? word and they dislike Android A LOT.
Looks like a good "insider" article came out today in the NYTimes saying that key folks on the Palm (and later HP) development team knew up front that WebOS was flawed. The article,
In Flop of H.P. TouchPad, an Object Lesson for the Tech Sector, quotes Paul Mercer the former senior software director at Palm as saying:
Paul Mercer said:
Palm was ahead of its time in trying to build a phone software platform using Web technology, and we just weren?t able to execute such an ambitious and breakthrough design. Perhaps it never could have been executed because the technology wasn?t there yet.
I also suspect the talent wasn't there yet at Palm either.
Not to steal jimjeffcoat's thunder in this thread, but many of us at PreCentral were pointing out the foundational flaws of WebOS as early as late Summer 2009 when promised, seemingly simple updates failed to materialize. Like Baconator says, the PreCentral community wasn't real big on reality checks and several of us were banned from the site simply for countering the "unicorns and rainbows" hopes of some members (many of whom were moderators - probably compensated) with cold, hard, software OS realities.
Funny how even the "science" of software development can produce rabid, irrationally-driven fanatics.