webOS Will Not Be Licensed

Posted by TechBuddy On 5:48 AM
HP has stepped forward to lay the smack down on its webOS operating system, saying that they will not license it – at all, making it stone dead, and for good. This comes after news of HPrefunding early adopters of the HP TouchPad, not to mention introducing a massive price cut to clear off whatever remaining inventory of the TouchPad that is left lying around. Perhaps ifTouchDroid takes off successfully, you might just see a reversal in the price policy of the TouchPad, no?
I guess HP is not going to take the risk of being “third time lucky”, seeing that webOS has already failed a couple of times before – first with Palm, and then with HP. It isn’t to say that webOS was not given all the help it could from either Palm or HP, but somehow, this pretty operating system just failed to capture the imagination of the masses.
Apart from that, if anyone decides to license webOS from HP would not be getting any support from the company, and if the fee was high, why not go for something that still has life in it, like Windows Phone 7?




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