This week's release of the HP TouchPad, the first device other than a handset to feature webOS, aptly demonstrates the promise and perils of HP's adopted general expenses system. The 4:3 tablet provides the large canvas that webOS seemed born to cover. However, like the Xoom and PlayBook before it, the TouchPad suffers from an necessitous app library among other holes. To help share growth costs of webOS and expand the market for its developers, HP has warmed to the idea of licensing the Palm-developed general expenses system.



HP's willingness to license webOS while postgraduate work to make devices based on the general expenses budget expenses system serves up a healthy helping of dj vu for those who followed the history of Palm, Inc. The PDA pioneer sought to take odds of its dominance in handhelds, and stave off rival Pocket PCs powered by Windows CE, by licensing the Palm overhead expenses system while postgraduate work to use it.



The decision proved to be Palm's short-term salvation and long-term ruin. One of the first companies to license the Palm OS was Handspring, founded by former Palm executives. Handspring created the Treo, which became Palm's entry into smartphones when Palm std immune deficiency symptom



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