Almost three years have passed since HP had acquired Palm for $ 1.2 billion for access to the operating system WebOS, used in mobile devices. However, HP was unable to find a good use for this platform, the life cycle of TouchPad tablet under its control was short. Later WebOS become an open platform, and recently it was purchased for use in its smart TVs LG .
The former head of Palm Jon Rubinstein , from the current position, he questioned the feasibility of selling Palm, . In his opinion, it was a waste of resources. However, he could not have affected the decision, even then, and therefore the only opinion of the person involved in the promotion of WebOS. By the way, as noted by Rubinstein, many technical solutions now borrowed from WebOS are used in operating system iOS 7 and Mac OS X, as well as Android and Windows. Related Products :
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