HP new hardware with WebOS and the manufacturer thinks of tablets, the ceo of the group announced. New smartphones of the company are no longer there. HP announced Friday to WebOS open source.
The question of The Verge or HP, new WebOS hardware is going to create, reply to Meg Whitman, ceo of the computer manufacturer, in the affirmative. On the follow-up question or to tablets, printers and smartphones, is going to she says: “For the foreseeable future I imagine that the tablets, but this can still change.” HP confirmed earlier in every case with Windows 8 tablets to come. The group gets most likely be permanently out of the smartphone market, confirms them: “I do not think that we are still in the smartphone business.”
Whitman showed further know that there is a WebOS team remains active in HP and that it is intended that WebOS in its entirety open-source. Also the source code of the input Enyo is made public. However, says HP board member Marc Andreessen that WebOS in its current form a few components which are not open source can be made. That will also be replaced by alternatives where that is the case.
Friday took HP’s decision to make WebOS open source. It is generally accepted that HP is a buyer trying to search for the operating system, but that the company apparently no party has been able to find that under the conditions of HP on the OS wanted to take care of.