HP’s CEO Leo Aptheker is currently on stage at D9, answering questions from the audience. The thing hasn’t concluded yet, but I think this one warrants its own item: Apotheker has revealed that HP is also licensing webOS to other hardware makers. “It’s a great OS – why wouldn’t we want to offer it to other companies? Why wouldn’t they want to use webOS? Appliance makers could use it to connect up normal home devices. We’d like to make webOS available to these people – enterprises, SMBs, etc. Yes, webOS will be more than just a system that runs inside an HP product.” When asked more directly if, for instance, HTC could build webOS phones, Apotheker answered: “We’d certainly have that conversation.”