Palm, and HP

When I first heard about the forthcoming "merger" between HP and Palm, I was afraid that one of the better products on the market was at it's end.

Not so.

Apparently HP has intentions of using the futuristic operating system with their forth-coming mobile devices.  This is music to my ears.

Only recently (at the thought of writing an application for the webOS platform) have I discovered how great the product is.  WebOS truly represents the future in Operating System Technology.  It incorporates open technologies, that may truly allow developers to easily write cross platform applications (not far from how the web operates today - except web apps will run "outside of the sandbox").

Just imagine - if you will - a web-based application that uses local libraries, graphics, styles, and hardware to accomplish it's purpose.  The end result would be a web-based application that runs VERY fast, natively, and on a device that grants developers direct access to hardware resources.  That, in concert with data pulled from the cloud would be a very powerful combination.

All Palm needs to do, is a better job at communicating it's systems capabilities to developers, and users - something that HP can help with.