Woodruff questioned HP on its continued promise to develop webOS, and that was one of the reasons he returned the TouchPad. Despite HP's commitment to webOS, Woodruff worried about the App Catalog, and also was concerned about the shutdown of some back-end services critical to retaining profiles.

"I really, really hope someone picks up webOS and goes somewhere with it. I'd happily pass my iPad 2 on to a family member if another company starts running strong with it," Woodruff said.

Despite discontinuing hardware sales, HP said it will continue support and development of the webOS, according to a blog entry earlier this week.

"We will continue to support, innovate and develop the webOS App Catalog. Our intent is to enhance our merchandising and presentation of your great products and to continue to build our webOS app ecosystem, .