Re:Who or what is the target for WebOS? (Score 1)

Are these guys still making PDAs and phones? If they're a hardware vendor, why not just use Android? Wrapping webkit and giving javascript APIs to talk to the hardware isn't a bad idea and it's working for PhoneGap. I just don't know why they have to re-invent the wheel. Do they intend on making money licensing their WebOS to other hardware manufacturers?

Why would you comment when you obviously have no understanding of what the company in the story produces? Palm has released PalmOS powered and Windows Mobile devices side-by-side for several years. Yes, they still make phones and PDAs. It doesn't make sense to use Android, and have to pay licensing on a product that they don't own when they have been around long enough to know what works and what their customers want. The technology that WebOS uses is well known, and they made what seems to be an improvement on their own work with the WebOS. I'll miss the traditional PalmOS, but probably not for long, if the early reviews of WebOS are any indicaion.