HPreported about plans to announce the cessation of the use of webOS, especially in webOS webOS TouchPad and smartphones
CALIFORNIA -"HP reported about plans to announce the cessation of the use of webOS, especially in webOS webOS TouchPad and mobile phones," wrote HP in his statement, reported by Mashable, Friday (08/19/2011).
A decision is very surprising coming from Hewlett-Packard (HP), which announced that the company would stop using the mobile operating system webOS on all devices.
This news is quite surprising considering HP just released its first tablet-based WebOS, TouchPad, to the market six weeks ago. Moreover TouchPad touted as a tablet which is a strong competitor in the line of tablet PCs iPad.
"The suspensions will continue with the exploration will be done by HP to optimize profits webOS in the future," the statement said.
When the burst of optimism, let alone the HP is the world's number one PC vendor. Acquisition of Palm makes optimism that HP would be able to compete more widely in the PC market and mobile simultaneously. Although today finally, the direction is again not clear.
HP's own software to buy Palm webOS from the company in April 2010, with the acquisition reached USD1, 2 billion. The fund is making one of the largest purchases made by HP. Palm itself was formerly a smart phone vendors such as Palm Pre developing its own operating system, webOS.
