HP TouchPad is a casualty of iPad's popularity

Woh. HP on Thursday announced that it is putting an abrupt end to its efforts with webOS. The company says it will "discontinue operations for webOS devi.This comes a year after HP spent $1.2 billion buying Palm and its webOS business, so HP could have its own operating system and build its own developer ecosystem, instead of using Windows'. Chief Executive Leo Apotheker -- who joined HP in NovemberHP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for webOS

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