Congrats!
I played with the touchpad and found it to be cool! I really liked the UI, it felt much more 'advanced' than the iPad, but ultimately the UI i use least. I'm more interested in app's (that's what I'll use my Tab for anyways) and currently apple has the crown on that.
So while I do think the UI was beautiful and slick i'll stick with iOS for 2 reasons. 1. it is better coded and runs more efficiently and 2. I'm already 200$+ invested in applications alone.
Happy you've found something you enjoy though, kudos!
People get too defensive.. choice is a wonderful thing and if OP likes WebOS thats awesome!
I made a genuine post earlier in reply to this topic based not on flaming but my hands on experience of WebOS being a pre and pre 2 owner and why IMHO I think HP will fail because of the lack of Apps and developer incentive to create apps for a platform which most carriers simply do not carry or support. Heck there's a post on Engadget subsequently about how Sprint are too dropping WebOS devices. With little platform support in Europe and seemingly now in the USA too - there is not enough push to drive the device into consumers hands, and without consumer adoption there is no reason for developers to release software.
European HP / Palm app store is even more barren than the USA store and with such a lack of major apps let alone 3rd party ones it makes webOS a hollow experience.
I hoped when HP took over Palm that there would be a mammoth push and a wave of apps would arrive in the store, that certainly has not happened.
MultiTasking is fabulous, but unless you have an abundance of apps consumers want to use then it's a pointless experience.
WebOS sadly has little chance of mass adoption at this stage sadly. 3 generations into it and it's main flaw has not been remedied, and without carriers to subsidise the hardware and drive it into consumers hands - things will not change and it will remain a very very 'niche' product. HP will of course then say oh were looking at the Enterprise Market, as soon as they do that they are acknowledging that this will not succeed outside of that. However with Blackberry Playbook already targeting that Market after a lacklustre reception commercially they have even more of a struggle to drive sales of the webOS devices.
There will always be geeks like me who purchase these products to experience the new operating systems just for the sake of adventure, but that doesn't equal mass consumer adoption.
I applaud Gromit for posting that he likes WebOS device but his opening post was very biased, even the way his thread title was phrased. Stating whats great about a device is fine, but the way he missed the glaring obvious flaws of the device and glossed over other ways the product is not a success - only gives merit to those that think he was trolling for a reaction rather than expressing an unbiased opinion. Likewise the way he dismissed other reviewers of the product, in a similar fashion to missing the negatives of the WebOS device.
I like WebOS (enough to have spent 800 on devices so far) but when all is said and done it has little chance of mass commercial success. If someone genuinely asked me for advice on which tablet to buy, I could not advise to go for a WebOS device without pointing out that there is a real problem with app variety (at the end of the day these are devices that run apps) and the way you manage and update or restore your software with rather antiquated JavaScript windows is and remains consumer unfriendly.
