WebOS Was 4 Years Ahead of Apple. HP Assassinated It in 49 Days.
WebOS was a mobile operating system four years ahead of Apple and Android, featuring card-based multitasking and wireless charging. Yet, HP destroyed it in just 49 days. This is the tragic story of how a visionary product was assassinated by corporate bureaucracy and a CEO who treated a long-term platform play as a short-term P&L line item.