Rumors are flying that Amazon is in talks with HP to buy their failed WebOS section. I claim they should click “buy now”, because this may be seriously good news, for a lot of parties.
For once, obviously for the WebOS staff whose work would not go down the drain with the demise of Palm and the scandalous incompetence of the HP board and their short-term CEO. For technology as a whole, because Web OS is too beautiful a piece of work with too many good individual ideas to just die in silence. For Amazon, because this move may indeed enable them to build a media delivery ecosystem that could seriously rival the censored, ahem, “curated” iOS ecosystem of rising media superpower Apple.
And that would be good news for all of us, I think. As much as I like and admire (love?) the quality and elegance of Apple’s products, I can’t help feeling uneasy at the concentration of power over media delivery they are building. And, yeah, competition, at the end, might just get me an even better iPhone 
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