HP in talks to license webOS

By on Jun 29, 2011 at 6:15 PM
mobile June 29, 2011

During an interview with Bloomberg recently, HP’s CEO Leo Apokether said that his company is in talks to license its webOS software to other manufacturers. “We are talking to a number of companies,” he said.”I can share with you that a number of companies have expressed interest. We are continuing our conversations.” Apotheker said there’s no specific time frame for when another company may announce that it’s using webOS and noted that “there is no time pressure.” However, Bloomberg said that Samsung has been named as one of the potential licensees, but that information is still being kept private. “Samsung will continue to strengthen its relationship with Google to provide ultimate values to customers,” Jason Kim, a Samsung spokesperson, said — hinting at the firm’s commitment to Android.  HP’s first webOS tablet, the TouchPad, will make its debut later this week on July 1st for $499.99.

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  • http://TheTrendaholic.com Charles West

    Offering up webOS via licensing doesn’t make HP sound confident in their own ability…

  • http://twitter.com/mfg68 MFG

    WebOS is such an overrated OS. There’s a reason it’s floundering. The Pre3 is going to fail and no manufacturers are going to want to license it.

    • Almonpoole

      WebOS is awesome, been using it since the Pre plus. It just needs some decent hardware and I think it can be a player.

      • guest

        If WebOS was that awesome then Palm would not have FAILED miserably regardless of hardware.
        Palm FAILED miserably because WebOS sucks.

      • Anonymous

        It needs more than decent hardware, they need to work on the speed of the OS. If it takes 4 seconds to open a browser window on a 1.2Ghz dual core processor, then you have a problem, and its not just the browser. EVERY application seems to take forever to open, when on other platforms like Honeycomb or iOS, apps open instantaneously

  • Nickroid27

    Very nice cant wait web os is the BEST os! HTC 4.3 inch beast that would smoke anything from badapple or goowhore.

  • http://twitter.com/mistercarter7 Mike Gonzalez

    that would be a great move, WebOS needs to spread and what better way to spread an OS than letting other manufacturers use it?! it’s been proven only Apple can use a private OS and be successful with it…

  • http://twitter.com/iphoneication r(d)apps

    HP is following in androids steps,,, ,licence the sofware and pimp it out to all handset makers….thats how android did it,, and look at them now,,, going it alone is something apple can only do at this point, google did not even have success in trying it apples way.

    what i do see is licensed web os devices for htc,, etc,,, also to be a developer for hp is free,, they want developers working on there web os products,, so licensing it out makes since to get it in the hands of the masses!

  • Anonymous

    An htc device that can dual boot android and webos.

  • C. Ottis Williams

    I see he’s trying to win over the enterprise dev crowd with his best duckface.

  • Anonymous

    Nice. Now motorola, Samsung and htc can put a real os on their tablets. And get rid of the android garbage.

  • Anonymous

    That pic is pure sex.

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