So expanding on my previous post…: any article at Precentral almost invariably degrades into a discussion about carriers in the comments section, which often makes for very predictable, and boring, reading; if HP is announcing their next killer-device I am not interested in debating whether it will available on Sprint or Verizon, or the pros and cons with each carrier, or people complaining about their carriers not offering the phone, or the superior plans of any given carrier. It is a shame since Precentral is basically the only site you can go to for WebOS news, but it really ruins the experience and the quality of the debate on the site.
But that also reflects one of Palm’s/WebOS’s underlying problems so far: it has been a USA-only phone up until very recently and hence the obsession with carriers (which of course, in turn, is a symptom of the American telecom market). Though to be honest, and despite the Pre 3 being available in Europe as well, HP need to make WebOS much more high profile than it currently is – they should do everything they can to convince someone like Samsung to license WebOS; if it were up to me I would license it for free to anyone interested (though with some minimum hardware requirements of course) for the first year or two (or however long it takes) until it gains enough momentum, and only then potentially charge for it. But that, once again, is a completely separate post…
