webOS was a mistake of HP's in the first place. Palm was dying, and frankly it simply couldn't stand on its own next to iOS or Android. Windows Phone 7 can barely take a piece of that pie, and Microsoft has some pretty deep pockets, not to mention superior engineering (IMO) to Palm.
Why HP invested into it in the first place is a mystery, and it doesn't take a genius to see that HP made a mistake, and whitman being the politician she is, will down play and never admit that "Yeah, it was a screw up, but we can't admit it just yet lest we look like a bunch of idiots for buying it in the first place since our first play on it died on the vine so miserably.... well you get the point.. webOS is ACTUALLY GREAT!"
Its all posturing and hoping to dodge another stock down turn. webOS is dead as fried chicken.
I know it, you know it. and HP knows it, they just can't admit it yet.