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发帖数: 904 | 1 The HP TouchPad is enjoying a level of popularity it never had until it was
discontinued and then dropped to $99 in price.
But Microsoft is hoping that, despite a sudden boom in the number of
TouchPad users, it will be able to draft developers who made apps for the HP
tablet and its WebOS operating system into making apps for Windows Phone 7.
"To Any Published WebOS Devs: We'll give you what you need to be successful
on #WindowsPhone, incl.free phones, dev tools, and training, etc.," tweeted
Brandon Watson, a Windows Phone evangelist for Microsoft.
Since sending out that call on Twitter over the weekend, Watson said he's
received more than 500 emails and about 1,000 responses from WebOS
developers interested in making apps for Windows Phone 7.
"We have love for all developers. #webOS guys had a bit of a rough week
though, so we're looking out for them," Watson said in another tweet.
WebOS isn't dead yet, HP has insisted, even though HP's WebOS hardware is
being killed off, Jon Zilber, an HP spokesman, said in a company blog post
Friday.
"Far from burying WebOS, our goal is to ensure the platform's evolution as a
robust operating system for an increasingly mobile and connected world,"
Zilber said in defending the platform without mentioning what the future for
WebOS holds.
On Monday, WebOS head Stephen DeWitt told website AllThingsD that HP still
planned to put WebOS on its printers and its PCs -- the same PC business
that HP is considering spinning off into a separate company or selling.
"Today we are the only ones making WebOS devices," DeWitt said, seemingly
forgetting that the company has stopped production of the TouchPad and WebOS
phones and has yet to release a WebOS PC or printer. "What tomorrow will
bring, that's open to speculation." |
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