Hewlett-Packard's CEO Meg Whitman has confirmed in an interview on Friday that the webOS, which is now going open source, will still be used by the company and in the larger touch screen tablet devices.
Technology news website The Verge has published an interview with the CEO of HP, after the future of the operating system moving to an open source model was made public at the very end of last week.
The website asked Meg Whitman ‘Will HP be creating any new webOS hardware?', where the answer came back 'yes but what I can't tell you is whether that will be in 2012 or not. But we will use webOS in new hardware', whilst going on to elaborate, ‘I would think tablets, I do not believe we will be in the smartphone business again'.
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