The news came today after months of uncertainty about the platform’s future, with rumours ranging from death to a sale to a life of powering printer apps. Now, though? An unlimited future, according to HP’s press release:
HP will make the underlying code of WebOS available under an open source licence. Developers, partners, HP engineers and other hardware manufacturers can deliver ongoing enhancements and new versions into the marketplace.
[HP]
Hugh Gurling
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 11:53 AMHP has helped create the best tablet and smartphone software and has finally seen the light. It now needs to get on the best hardware. Can HTC, Samsung, etc. now release “flavours” of their devices with WEBOS and make the world better by allowing the best to prove itself.
Jaezass
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 12:16 PMStrange, the way I read the article on another site this morning, was that they were still considering it, not that they had actually decided?
Womp
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 4:21 PMBah humbug! I still can´t get VLC on my touchpad. Nobody is going to wipe Android, iOs, or Windows from their tablet to replace it with an OS that only plays a fraction of multimedia formats, often poorly, and mostly not free.
I have difficulty caring less about what HP does with webos, what I want to know is why haven´t they released the version of Android that they developed and installed on the touchpad?
olearymo
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 8:58 AM…why would they?
The best part of the TouchPad is certainly not the hardware. Why don’t you get a cheap android tablet?