Report: HP To Kill webOS in November
Thus ends the the saga of TouchPad.
On October 4, failed California Gubernatorial Candidate and newly installed Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said that she would 'decide the fate' of the company's PC division before month's end. At that time, HP's original plan to sell the division had already been scaled back to a spin-off and as October draws to a close, it appears that HP intends to spare PC division after all. Not all is well for the beleaguered department; the Guardian reported Friday that though HP will no longer jettison PC, they're going to kill webOS.
WebOS, acquired in 2010 when HP purchased Palm for 1.2 billion, is the operating system behind the TouchPad tablet. TouchPad's notorious failure was a factor in the company's flirtation with getting rid of their PC division, and it was unlikely to survive regardless of that decision. Attempts to attract interested buyers - Amazon was rumored to have been courted - failed, all but sealing webOS' fate. One HP employee told the Guardian earlier that "There's a 95% chance we all get laid off between now and November." Still, the end of webOS means the loss of up to 500 jobs and the scary prospect of finding work in a tech industry battered by the worst recession since the 1930s.

http://www.businessinsider.com/hp-says-it-will-not-shut-down-webos-2011-10?op=1
http://www.businessinsider.com/hp-says-it-will-not-shut-down-webos-2011-10?op=1
Thanks for link. It's good to know they are not being entirely stupid. I have a feeling that we'll see the TouchPad come back.
I was only going to use it for web look-ups while reading or watching TV, but somewhere on the way to Google I found that this little gem is really neat. I like the interface better than what I've seen of my stepson's iPad, and I find myself using it all the time wherever I happen to be, something that my laptop has never done well.
I like this thing, and I can't help but feel abandoned now with HP's handling of the whole debacle. It's hard to believe that this is the same company that produced my HP-41CX, and I don't see how anybody is going to be able to trust them as a services company after this.
It's like they had no strategy or vision beyond a few months...they picked up WebOS for 1.2B like you'd pick up a trinket at a garage sale. I have a tough time getting a couple $k approved.