Rumor: Amazon to WebOS interested

Rumor: Amazon to WebOS interested
The U.S. blog Venture Beat has been a rumor circulated that the U.S. online retailer Amazon is interested in buying the mobile operating system from HP WebOS. Amazon has a few days ago presented with Android running Tablet, the Fire. HP's short-term chief Leo Apotheker announced in mid-August to set their own tablets and smartphones with WebOS, but had to resign shortly thereafter [4]. His successor, Meg Whitman intends to continue its rebuilding efforts of the pharmacist's strategy, but whether the thing you bought from HP WebOS Palm inventor ever up for sale is uncertain. Adjust according to HP's announcement, WebOS, as potential buyers, other firms have been fried in the rumor mill, including Samsung and HTC, HP had previously thought (but already even Palm) with a license. Former Palm CEO and now HP employees Jon Rubinstein is at least since the end of last year, a member of the board of Amazon.
Amazon provides the Fire almost exclusively to play media purchased from Amazon in the foreground, that it is an Android device, is mentioned only marginally. It has probably not fully qualified by Google, so it has no access to the Google Market, Maps, Gmail and other apps. The move would cost a WebOS on Fire successor thus hardly functions. Amazon, however, operates its own Android Market apps, which would then not run on a WebOS Fire. WebOS currently exist for significantly less than for Android apps.
Maybe it's also about patents. Android creator Google has not been legally operating system enough coverage so that the device manufacturers have to deal with complaints from Microsoft and Apple, among other things. Some manufacturers have agreed with Microsoft to royalty payments - the part of Apple's sales threaten to stop. Amazon deserves unlike Samsung, HTC & Co. at the unit price less the tablet (or the Kindle e-book reader), but the sale of the media.
Whether for a purchase from Amazon and smartphones could be expected with WebOS, is pure speculation. Amazon has at least so far produced no hardware that is not primarily the sale of their own media. In the coming months will bring out more Amazon Tablets, is rumored for some time. According to Digitimes is a manufacturer of a 10-inch version of Foxconn in conversation, but the operating system is not yet mentioned.