Forget the TouchPad for Now: HP Wants to See webOS Everywhere
By Rob Scott
August 19, 2011
August 19, 2011
- Despite the TouchPad’s dismal retail performance, HP is forging ahead with webOS.
- HP is in talks to license webOS for use in smart appliances, cars, gadgets “and just about anything else that has a screen,” reports Digital Trends.
- The company is taking a similar stance to that of Google with Android in terms of integrating the OS in smart appliances and other devices. HP plans to integrate webOS into all of its computers by next year.
- “I happen to believe that webOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system,” said HP CEO Leo Apotheker during the D9 conference. “It’s not correct to believe that it should only be on HP devices. There are all kinds of other people who want to make whatever kind of hardware they make and would like to connect them to the Internet.”
- “We are fans of webOS,” explains Digital Trends, “but if HP hopes to expand the platform, it will have to deal with the performance issues we’ve seen on the TouchPad and Palm Pre devices and work to drum up more interest from the developer community.”
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Breaking news this AM from Bloomberg reporting that HPwill get out of the PC business and focus on Cloud initiatives. That probably means no WebOS products from HP…their only hope for the tech will be in licensing.
Breaking news this AM from Bloomberg reporting that HPwill get out of the PC business and focus on Cloud initiatives. That probably means no WebOS products from HP…their only hope for the tech will be in licensing.
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