Thus far webOS has remained a strictly in-house affair. Neither Palm or HP have made any move to allow outside parties a piece of the webOS pie (similar to how Apple and RIM run things). But times could be a changin’ as a new report by Bloomberg claims HP is in fact in talks with several 3rd party vendors looking to give webOS a new home. The “claim” comes from HP CEO Leo Apotheker himself, who says
“We are talking to a number of companies. I can share with you that a number of companies have expressed interest. We are continuing our conversations.”
Apotheker declined to name any specific “interests”. Bloomberg, however, goes on the record saying three separate anonymous sources have come forward to claim Samsung is webOS’ first outside target.
As usual this is all pretty informal, unofficial information. Still, the webOS faithful should be at least a tad excited. Where HP/Palm have repeatedly failed at bringing any large number of webOS handsets (or simply good handsets at that) to market, 3rd parties could pick up the slack. Here’s to hoping…
Source: Bloomberg
Via: PreCentral
