Will you see the HP webOS software on PCs for 2012. ?
Despite the laysoff of the webOS hardware engineers, probably yes.
Before I make a conclusion I would like to quote the following, posted on:
The remainder of the webOS team, under Stephen DeWitt, will continue to report into PSG; later today, Stephen will reach out to these teams with an update.
It means that the hardware webOS division will stay under the Personal Systems Group and continue to report to Stephen DeWitt.
Even if there is no remainder webOS hardware staff, HP´s PSG have their own hardware division for PCs a long time ago before HP acquired Palm.
At the D9 Althingsdigital event Walt Mossberg made the following question to Leo Apotheker HP CEO:
Walt:
"I know you´re still focused on your enterprise customers. It sounds like you´re diverging. People used to say Hp and Dell together a lot. You know sound a lot more like Apple. What´s going on ? This a very different HP.
Leo:
It should be. We´ll do a bunch of things for consumers and we´ll do a lot of things for enterprises. Our ambition is tocreate a world where you don´t need to flip devices when you do personal things or work-related things on your devices. All of these things come together.
Update your contacts once in Outlook and it updates them everywhere else automatically.
All devices seamlessly connected, smartphones, laptops, netbooks, notebooks, printers etc and updated from one to another. You received a call, a message or you work on office documents on your smartphone but you can answer , recieve and view/work word, excel or power points on your tablet or any actual or future form factor webOS devices.
HP CEO Leo Apotheker. Create a world where you don´t need to flip devices.
WebOS on Every PC
Apotheker says he also wants to make better use of WebOS, the computer-operating system acquired last year when Hewlett- Packard purchased smartphone maker Palm Inc. for $1.2 billion. Starting next year, every one of the PCs shipped by HP will include the ability to run WebOS in addition to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows, Apotheker said.
The move is aimed at enticing software developers to create a wider range of applications that would differentiate HP PCs, printers, tablets and phones from those sold by rivals.
“You create a massive platform,” Apotheker said.
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HP's McKinney hints that a flexible display Palm device could happen.
Are these HP future Tech concepst the new HP webOs laptops PCs , we are talking about?
The HP Flex and the HP Curve? Watch the videos below:
