Hewlett-Packard cut 270 employees from its troubled webOS division today, a move aimed at cutting costs, but which calls into question the company's recent statements that it is committed to the platform.
According to The Verge, HP slashed the positions because "it no longer needs many of the engineering and other related positions that it required before."
The company's decision comes not long after it said it would
The Verge published a statement from HP about the layoffs this afternoon in which the company said that, "As webOS continues the transition from making mobile devices to open source software, it no longer needs many of the engineering and other related positions that it required before. This creates a smaller and more nimble team that is well-equipped to deliver an open source webOS and sustain HP's commitment to the software over the long term."
In the statement, HP also said that it hopes to "redeploy employees affected by these changes to other roles at the company."