In the wake of Amazon’s launch of its Kindle Fire tablet on Wednesday, the company’s reportedly looking at buying the Palm webOS operating system from ailing HP, according to a report in Venturebeat. Amazon spent quite a bit of time, effort and money tweaking Android for the Kindle Fire, which reportedly presold 95,000 units on its first day. So why would it think of getting a new operating system? Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, who was hired by HP when the latter purchased Palm last year, had previously stated that Amazon would make a good partner and could help expand the webOS ecosystem.
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Is Amazon Shopping for WebOS?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari September 30, 2011 11:51 AMIn the wake of Amazon’s launch of its Kindle Fire tablet on Wednesday, the company’s reportedly looking at buying the Palm webOS operating system from ailing HP, according to a report in Venturebeat. Amazon spent quite a bit of time, effort and money tweaking Android for the Kindle Fire, which reportedly presold 95,000 units on its first day. So why would it think of getting a new operating system? Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, who was hired by HP when the latter purchased Palm last year, had previously stated that Amazon would make a good partner and could help expand the webOS ecosystem.