[jefflinwood]

I think WebOS would benefit from a wider installed base, especially in mobile phones. HP/Palm has a limited amount of phones that they can seem to get out there - for instance, the Palm Pre 3 was announced in February, but it's still not out yet. Even when it comes out, I doubt it will be on all of the major US carriers.

Why not license to HTC or Samsung - as WebOS runs on Linux, it may not be that much trouble to take a device designed for Android to get it to run WebOS - anyone know?

Developing for WebOS is pretty easy - it's all done in Enyo, a slick component-driven Javascript framework. You don't end up writing much HTML or CSS, and you can do much of your testing with Safari or Chrome on your desktop. You're not tied to an IDE. Also there's no code signing/provisioning issues like there are with iOS.

[ConstantineXVI]

Android uses a slightly modified Linux kernel; porting wouldn't be a quick find/replace but it'd still be easier than a totally different OS. If HP wanted to make things even easier, they could likely do some sort of WebOS/Android hybrid (Android's modified kernel with the WebOS userland) so OEMs wouldn't even need to figure out the Android/WebOS low-level differences.