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by colortone
5490 days ago
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FWIW: Leo's actual comments are a bit more interesting than this Engadget story, full transcript and video below. Ethan
HP Corporate Communications http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Data-Central/HP-CEO-L%C3%A9o-Ap... "I happen to believe that webOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system. So there's no reason to believe that the only hardware that can run it is HP's," Leo said. "By the way, they don't have to be 'hardware makers' in the classical IT sense. There are many people who make all kinds of control devices, why wouldn't they want to use webOS for that? Appliance makers can use webOS to create connectivity between their appliances and the Web." "There are all kinds of other people who want to make whatever device or piece of hardware they make connected to the Internet," he continued. "And therefore, we'd like to make webOS available to these people, as we are going to make webOS available to enterprises, or indeed to SMB's who want to create whatever kind of environment within their own firewall." "So from that perspective, yes, webOS will be more than just running inside or on top of a particular piece of hardware that HP will make." |
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Even more reason for HP to go open source though. Why use webOS when you can use Android for free instead? Why try to get ahold of an HP sales rep to discuss licensing terms when the Android repository is seconds away from any desktop. Android is already being used in phones and TVs. Soon it will be in cars and pretty much any other embedded device with a screen for a user interface.