Epocrates Ends Support for WebOS
In a fateful day not only for WebOS users in the medical field, but to the platform as a whole, Epocrates recently announced plans to terminate support for WebOS entirely. Citing "...the relatively low interest level among our user base", WebOS is terminating the app after fielding one last clinical update sometime in mid-December.This move may come as a surprise to some, considering the company's long and glorious history with Palm OS devices, as evidenced bythis PIC feature on Palm OS handhelds in the medical field back in 2001. Even in the lean recent years of Palm, the company supported their Palm OS app on WebOS through Motion Apps' Classic (another recently-departed app) before launching the native WebOS version in February of this year.
The final date to install or update the product will be February 1st. On that date, the app will be removed from Palm's App Catalog. Afterwards, the app will continue to function until an unspecified time in May, upon which the app will be remotely terminated and cease to function entirely.
