The Palm Pre line of smartphones and the new TouchPad tablet computer, are very good products, but they have not been doing well in the market place. Apple, with iPhone and the iPad, has a near choke-hold on that market segment.

HP has thus decided to either spin-off the business unit that WebOS and its devices are part of, or explore "other transaction." That is another way of saying, if the first option does not succeed, we will sell it.

But rather than those two options, here's what I think HP should do with WebOS.