HP WebOS (the official name would be the uncapitalised webOS) is a mobile operating system founded on a Linux kernel, initially put together by Palm. Later on, the OS was acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
WebOS was introduced by Palm in January 2009. Various versions of WebOS seem to have been featured on several devices, including Pre, Pixi, and Veer phones along with the HP TouchPad tablet.
Hewlett-Packard said Friday, it really is making its webOS mobile system useful to the open source community and changed course on intends to abandon making tablets dictated by the platform.
HP is going to take another shot at making webOS tablets, most certainly in 2013, Meg Whitman, the chief executive of our world’s darling computer maker, said inside an interview with technology blog TechCrunch.
HP said it’ll go on to try and support webOS, but the software platform will definitely grow to be open source, meaning that developers anywhere can tinker by it as they wish, and it will be available to you to make use of without charge.
Palo Alto, California-based HP announced in August it will stop making smartphones and tablet computers using the webOS software acquired from Palm within a $1.2 billion deal a while back.
Citing disappointing sales, HP announced on August 18 previously it was discontinuing the TouchPad, a tablet computer powered using webOS, just seven weeks after it hit the market.
A couple of weeks later, HP said it planned one last production run of your TouchPad, which became a hot seller indulging in price cut from $499 to just $99 and also the announcement to the point it was being abandoned.
TouchPad was the top-selling tablet computer in America after Apple’s iPad in the first 10 months of the year, market research company NPD Group reported last month.
WebOS’s graphical user interface design was led by Matias Duarte to be played with on devices with touchscreens. WebOS uses multi-touch gestures to navigate at the touchscreen. The interface uses “cards” to manage multitasking. The user switches between running applications by way of flicking gesture from side to side on the screen. Applications are closed by flicking a “card” up—and “off”—the screen.
