iPad 2 runs webOS twice as fast as the TouchPad, internal HP testing revealed

Hewlett-Packard engineers did dare pull unthinkable: They hacked iPad to install webOS only to find out Apple’s hardware runs their mobile operating system more than twice as fast compared to their own TouchPad hardware, a source “close to the subject” told The Next Web. The finding had devastating effects on the team’s morale:

The hardware reportedly stopped the team from innovating beyond certain points because it was slow and imposed constraints, which was highlighted when webOS was loaded on to Apple’s iPad device and found to run the platform significantly faster than the device for which it was originally developed.
It should be pointed out that webOS runs on Qualcomm ARM chips while iPad 2 runs on Samsung silicon. This little nugget is even more revealing:

With a focus on web technologies, webOS could be deployed in the iPad’s Mobile Safari browser as a web-app; this produced similar results, with it running many times faster in the browser than it did on the TouchPad.
In fact, the webOS team wanted HP’s TouchPad and Pre hardware “gone” even before the products hit the marketplace according to TNW. With a hardware refresh a year off and similar issues with the Pre phones, this could have contributed to the decision to shutter the webOS and perhaps license it out to other companies (with better hardware).

In a separate report, TNW details how the news was broken to the webOS group within HP.

Almost everyone at HP found out about the death of the TouchPad and Pre hardware as the public did, in the press release. Only the top executives knew anything about this decision and even senior staff as high as Ari Jaaksi, the Vice President of webOS software, didn’t know about the shuttering of hardware before it happened. After the press release came out, there was a company wide meeting filled with a bunch of ‘corporate speak’, in which staff were told that they were going to be in limbo for 3-4 weeks.

It’s worth mentioning Hewlett and Packard were Jobs’ heroes growing up. It is also worth recalling that the company saw absolutely no value in Wozniak’s original personal computer design and laughed him off. The Woz then went on to create the original Apple I, he founded a company with Steve Jobs that put personal computing on the map, the same market Hewlett-Packard would spectacularly exit 34 years later.
The rest, as they say, is history.

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Woz would consider return to Apple, if asked

Steve Wozniak, the beloved geek and gadget lover, would consider a return to Apple, the company he co-founded 35 years ago with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne, in an active role, if asked. He praised Apple’s string of smash hit products and opined that the company would benefit from being more open. He told Reuters this past Friday:

There’s just an awful lot I know about Apple products and competing products that has some relevance, some meaning. They’re my own feelings, though.
Another quote from the 60-year-old engineer who created the original Apple computers, about why Apple should be more open, right after the break…



My thinking is that Apple could be more open and not lose sales. I’m sure they’re making the right decisions for the right reasons for Apple.


Wozniak is currently involved with storage startup Fusion-io where he works as chief scientist. The ramifications of his potential return to Apple could be long felt. His presence would assuredly breathe new life into the company at a time when Steve Jobs is on an indefinite medical leave, his third.

The Woz, still an Apple employee, hasn’t participated in day-to-day decisions or product development since 1987.

The gadget expert is due to give a commencement address at the Michigan State University’s convocation next month. He will speak alongside TIAA-CREF president and CEO Roger Ferguson Jr. and both will receive an honorary degree. At a Storage Networking World keynote last week Wozniak said that the tablet is for “the normal people in the world” rather than geeks and hoped Android-driven slates never take the wind out of the iPad’s sails.


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Steve Jobs: 'If We Hadn't Have Made Blue Boxes, There Would Be No Apple' [Video]

Take a look at this video in which Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer, discusses how the experience of building illegal blue boxes empowered him and Steve Wozniak to found Apple Computer.

The clip is taken from the documentary, "Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance".






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Steve Wozniak Comments on White iPhone Delays, Says It's Coming Soon

On the Engadget Show yesterday, Steve Wozniak commented on why the white iPhone has been delayed.

VentureBeat notes that Woz managed to get a hold of white iPhone parts that came from Foxconn. After modding his iPhone 4, Woz noticed that the photos he took looked as though they were taken through cellophane.

Wozniak said that his white iPhone 4 parts caused issues with its proximity sensor (although I think he’s actually referring to its ambient light sensor, which could see similar light leakage issues to the camera). He then confirmed that Apple has resolved the problems with the white iPhone 4, and that we’ll be seeing them soon.

A report from Macotakara has also suggested that a new Japanese developed painting material has finally solved the production problems with the white iPhone 4.



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