Mobile World Congress was crickets-ville for webOS news as the anticipated release of webOS Version 1.4 didn’t happen on Monday. Derek K had a nice post that explained how the webOS update process works (it garnered 160 comments!).
"Generally it takes a few weeks from Palm seeding the update to developers and carriers to when the update is released. Now, a few weeks is not any sort of guarantee for an update release, sometimes it takes longer, sometimes it happens faster. (As an ironic aside, February 15th was also a rumored launch date for the Palm Pre – in 2009. People got all worked up over Palm "missing" that date as well, when all that was promised was "first half of 2009.")
At the very least, we should still see webOS 1.4 in some form by the end of the month. Palm publicly promised that on stage at CES. There’s a reason we filed the leaked update under “rumors” and approached it with cautious optimism. It doesn’t always pan out. Take this to heart: webOS 1.4 is coming this month. Just not yesterday."
So with no Palm news to chase, Dieter Bohn did manage to get Adobe to show Flash working on webOS. Working… yes. Ready for prime time? Not quite.
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