aapold writes "HP, which spent $1.2 billion to acquire Palm and webOS only to cancel their product line shortly after launching it, is now apparently going to open source the entire webOS operating system according to a press release. No mention of any hardware partners or plans, but they claim they will be active in further development." Link to Original Source
even though my zune player is long dead, I keep my subscription going. I just sync them to my android phone these days, and re-sync when the license runs out. Originally I thought I would have to get a windows phone to do this, but it works fine through windows media player of all things.
To read the linked article, you'd think the reviews were lukewarm to negative.
Then you click on one of them, the PC magazine review and it gives it "4/5 with its "bottom line" summary as "The first easy-to-use, affordable small-screen tablet, the Amazon Kindle Fire is revolutionary."
Verge was slightly less positive, giving it 75%, but finishes with "Still, there's no question that the Fire is a really terrific tablet for its price. "
So basically instead of sense or touchwiz or whatever you ran webOS as your "skin", and it handled the multi-tasking and other interface elements... but the apps themselves were android apps that ran inside "cards".....
I'd sign up for that.