When the Watsons at IBM bet their company on the development of the 360 computer the space was wide open, competition clearly underdeveloped and unable to catch up.

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Of course, when we actually saw Open webOS 1.0 it was already stretching to fill the space of an HP TouchSmart computer screen (project architect Steve Winston specifically mentioned hotel kiosks as a possibility, a market LG is all over) so it makes sense that larger displays have been a target.

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