HP makes webOS open source

HP has made webOS, the mobile platform running on this year’s TouchPad tablet, open source in a last-ditch attempt to save the OS.

The idea is that enthusiasts and developers will jump all over the chance to mess around with the code and create some webOS apps and goodies for the 750,000 people who snapped up the bargain tablet and anyone with a Palm smartphone. Head over to HP’s webOS developer blog to contribute suggestions.

HP isn’t ruling out making a tablet comeback should its experiment prove successful. Yes, the TouchPad was itself supposed to be a comeback but we wouldn’t have made it all the way to Rocky V if there’d been no obstacles in the way, now would we?

If you’ve got some hardware running webOS lying around, you know what to do.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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