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Brace yourselves, webOS fans.
In the hours before the Conference call Q3 later today, HP has just confirmed that they would cease operations associated with the touch pad and all the phones webOS.
According to their press release:
HP announced that it plans to announce that it will cease operations for webOS devices, specifically the touchpad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options for optimizing the value of the webOS software, go ahead.
This news will come as a huge hit in the gut for fans of webOS (including me, although you can't say that we could not see it coming), many of which were the product of years — the first in the hope that eventually the Palm will be worthy of a pretty fantastic device's operating system, and later in the hope that the HP purchase of Palm could spark a fire, which simply never seemed tolight.
On the upside, webOS, the itself is not dead – at least not just yet. HP wording up above leaves things a bit blurred, with at least two potential routes remains open: licensing webOS to other other, phone/tablet device sticking webOS (HP has already made plans to put it in the printers and cars). Until further notice, however, this is essentially dead in the water.
One for webOS devices this evening, my fellow geeks.
Update: If HP output still saving face, here's a way to do it.
Update: HP Stephen Dewitt says, "we are not going from webOS." they will continue their efforts to advance and may license the OS, but his life as we know that it is definitely over.
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