HP: WebOS Will Be On Every PC We Ship in 2012
And you thought you'd have to get a Veer or HP TouchPad to get your hands on WebOS!
Last month HP unveiled a whole line of devices utilizing the WebOS operating system it gained when it acquired Palm last year. However, it seems a brand spanking new line of WebOS mobile devices was just the tip of the iceberg; HP plans to put WebOS on a lot more of its machines. In fact, by next year, it’s going to be on all of them.
Speaking to Bloomberg, HP CEO Leo Apotheker said that starting in 2012, every one of HP’s PCs will be shipped with the ability to run WebOS as well as Windows.
Speaking to the Seattle Times, Phil McKinney, CTO of HP's personal systems group, said the company's new approach would be "a combination of taking the existing operating systems and bringing WebOS onto those platforms and making it universal across all of our footprint."
According to Bloomberg, the aim of including WebOS is to encourage developers to develop applications for more than just phones and tablets. The end result is hopefully differentiating HP PCs, printers, tablets and phones from competitors' products.
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It'd be quite interesting if they could get a solution where you'd have instant access to a lot of things through the slimline OS and could transfer over on the fly to Windows, keeping things such as internet browser windows going, as and when you wanted to. Even if it just used to cover the time while Windows was booting up and caching your main programs it might be quite jolly.
It'd be quite interesting if they could get a solution where you'd have instant access to a lot of things through the slimline OS and could transfer over on the fly to Windows, keeping things such as internet browser windows going, as and when you wanted to. Even if it just used to cover the time while Windows was booting up and caching your main programs it might be quite jolly.
Would it really be that useful? Windows boot times are not long enough to really justify it, and with the increasing use of SSD's I cant see any reason to use it. My mobo supports that ASUS mini-OS (cant remember the name for the life of me), disabled it in BIOS never to be seen again.
From what I've seen of WebOS, it'd be great for netbooks/ULV laptops. It doesn't matter that not all software works on such computers, they can't run it anyway.
What matters is speed, efficiency and the ability to do the core tasks of a small computer - web browsing, minor word processing and communication in its many forms. And that's something that a good mobile OS like WebOS excells at.
But shipping it with full fat computers? No way.