Jon Rubinstein, one of the creators of the iPod and the director of smartphonemaker Palm, has left HP. Rubinstein was ceo of Palm when that company in 2010 for 1.2 billion dollars was acquired by computergigant HP.
It is unclear why the ceo is leaving at HP. The departure is reported by All Things Digital and confirmed by HP. He would not yet be a new feature. The computermaker had big plans with WebOS, which it bought with the acquisition of Rubinsteins company Palm in 2010. Of those plans, however, came not so much: the TouchPad tablet flopped in the first instance, and was only a success when the price with three-quarters was reduced. Then announced HP with no hardware to worry for WebOS.
This week was the framework Enyo as open source download. The open source of an operating system is more often a last solution proved to be a OS a success. Rubinstein was before he became director of Palm employee at Apple, where he worked on the first iPod, released in 2001. Rubinstein was at HP is responsible for WebOS.