[citation][nom]STravis[/nom]Not sure where this will lead to (maybe the same path of the Zaurus 5000) but why would a developer pay money for a tablet that has been discontinue which runs an OS that has a shaky future.Why wouldn't developers focus on the established players?[/citation]
In a "word", $150. Even if you don't develop for it, it's a nice price for the product, so you buy it for that. If HP announces in the next few weeks they are leveraging the platform, even better. Of course, you have to ask yourself why HP would be doing this, and the only logical explanation is the one I gave. They want them in developers hands because they are going to keep going with the platform. When they make the announcement, they hit the floor running.
Now that they got rid of that blight called Leo, they have to make decisions and make them without equivocation. Their back and forth nonsense has created exactly the poisonous doubt you mentioned. At this point, everything they do has to be to erase exactly that doubt, and show people they now have commitments. I've never seen a debacle like this before, with all this indecisiveness, and it's hurt HP, and it's going to hurt them going forward. But, putting TouchPads in developers hands, for cheap, and announcing they are going forward with WebOS for at least five years, will at least mitigate some of the damage. They need to make a statement like that, and guarantee a lifespan, or any announcement about continued development will lack the strength to make other people commit. The need to be decisive, strong, and unequivocal. Anything less, and it's going to die anyway.