In March 2011, HP announced plans for a version of webOS by the end of 2011 to run within Windows, and to be installed on all HP desktop and notebook computers in 2012. However, HP also made the decision that the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, and the "Plus" revisions would not receive over-the-air updates to webOS 2.0, despite a previous commitment to an upgrade "in coming months." HP announced several webOS devices, including the HP Veer and HP Pre 3 smartphones, running webOS 2.2, and the HP TouchPad, a tablet computer released in July 2011 that runs webOS 3.0. In February 2011, HP announced that it would use webOS as the universal platform for all its devices. HP executives demonstrating webOS devices in 2011 HP indicated its intention to develop the webOS platform for use in multiple new products, including smartphones, tablets, and printers. The $1.2 billion acquisition was finalized in June. Later, webOS was described by new HP CEO Leo Apotheker as a key asset and motivation for the purchase. The acquisition of Palm was initiated while Mark Hurd was CEO, however he resigned shortly after the acquisition was completed. 2010–2013: Acquisition by HP the launch of Open webOS Upgraded "Plus" versions of both Pre and Pixi were released on Verizon and AT&T. The first webOS device was the original Palm Pre, released by Sprint in June 2009. Palm launched webOS, then called Palm webOS, in January 2009 as the successor to Palm OS. Various versions of webOS have been featured on several devices since launching in 2009, including Pre, Pixi, and Veer smartphones, TouchPad tablet, LG's smart TVs since 2014, LG's smart refrigerators and smart projectors since 2017. In January 2014, Qualcomm announced that it had acquired technology patents from HP, which included all the webOS and Palm patents LG licenses them to use in their devices. The operating system was later sold to LG Electronics, and was made primarily a smart TV operating system for LG televisions as a successor to LG Netcast. (which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard), HP made the platform open source, at which point it became Open webOS. WebOS, also known as LG webOS and previously known as Open webOS, HP webOS and Palm webOS, is a Linux kernel-based multitasking operating system for smart devices such as smart TVs that has also been used as a mobile operating system.
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