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HP's shot across Microsoft's bow: webOS to ship on all HP PCs -----

Posted on Mar 10 2011 05:16 AM by xper  in Software | Viewed 1848 Times

HP CEO Leo Apotheker has said that next year, all PCs sold by Hewlett-Packard will include webOS, the mobile operating system acquired by HP when it bought Palm last year. The operating system will ship alongside, not instead of, Microsoft's Windows.

That HP had ambitions for webOS on the desktop was revealed in February at the company's event introducing the TouchPad. What wasn't clear then was the scale of the plans. webOS will not be a niche offering, but will become enormously widespread.

The move is designed to give webOS greater reach and make it more attractive to developers. Apotheker wants to create a "massive platform," and wants to use more than just phones and tablets to achieve this. With HP the largest seller of PCs in the world, the move should mean that by the end of 2012 there will be tens of millions of systems with webOS installed.

Since its release in June 2009, webOS has struggled to attract third-party developers. Its application store, the Palm App Catalog, has about 6,000 applications, a figure that places it far behind Apple's 350,000 iOS applications and Google's 250,000 Android applications. It even lags behind newcomer Windows Phone 7, which has over 9,000 applications already.

Full story: Ars Technica




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CoffeeFiend 

11 March 2011 - 02:36 AM
If it's anything like what they have now (an annoyance at best), the very first thing people will do is disable it. It's a great way to add cost while reducing value.
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