Who Loves WebOS? Not Samsung, Not Anyone

Increasingly, WebOS seems like-minded an OS that not even its own mother could bang.

Samsung CEO Choi Gee Sung told reporters at the IFA consumer electronics conference in German capital that his company will "never" consider purchasing WebOS from HP, which announced last month that it is discontinuing WebOS devices. Some analysts had speculated that the Korean twist maker might be interested in picking up the essentially device-less platform.

While Samsung is perhaps best known for making positive Humanoid phones, IT does have its own OS, called Bada, which runs on a number of devices, including the newly announced Samsung Galax Preeminence, Tab 7.7 and three newfound Wave smartphones.

But apparently we won't see a merging of Bada and WebOS anytime soon.

Disdain being hated past HP, WebOS did erstwhile have a loyal fan base, back when it was Palm's Operating system. HP bought out Palm in 2010 and morphed the mobile platform into WebOS. The HP Touchpad was positioned to be the signature WebOS device, but after only a month and half, HP killed information technology and its Palm phones.

What followed that announcement has turned the tablet world happening its head teacher and led to oodles of confusion complete the future of WebOS. Horsepower dropped the Leontyne Price of TouchPads to as Low equally $99 to do in its WebOS inventory and they became a sense, flying off online and brick-and-mortar shelves. Directly HP says it bequeath make one last run of the tablets to help satisfy necessitate and whitethorn stretch out support for a while, and the rumor mill about WebOS's future is at full speed.

Choi's quick dismissal of a realistic WebOS acquisition helps put things back into perspective. A bunch of firesale tablets doesn't mean consumers have found new love for WebOS; it equitable agency they've just launch a great bargain. A TouchPad contains about $300 worth of hardware alone, after all. Given the buzz online about the theory of porting Android onto those cheap TouchPads, it seems that their new owners could have even less love for WebOS than HP.

HTC and Facebook have non responded to guess that they may be interested in buying the OS, and HP says it's still open to licensing deals and partnerships to advance WebOS. The day before announcing the discontinuance, HP said it was looking at applying WebOS to other home devices and automotive infotainment systems. If WebOS does become the leading operating system for blenders one day, IT bequeath be about arsenic significant as organism the top OS on Mars. It's time to Lashkar-e-Toiba WebOS—and Palm—finally rest in peace.