Hewlett-Packard is getting ready to embed WebOS, the operating system it acquired last year in the purchase of smartphone maker Palm, in all of its Windows PCs, building a huge platform for developers to offer applications.
HP chief executive Leo Apotheker told the Bloomberg news agency in an interview that WebOS would run, in addition to Windows, in every PC HP ships starting in 2012. The idea is to offer a large enough platform and potential user base to entice developers to build applications that would differentiate HP PCs, and eventually its smartphones and tablets, from others in the market. "You create a massive platform," Apotheker said.
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