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HP develops & tests their apps in Chrome using a WebOS extension so I'd expect a Chrome-based mechanism for running apps on PCs. Most WebOS apps are HTML5 based. PDK apps will need something emulator-esque but I'd expect it to just be an app window.
Were I building it from scratch, I'd have a taskbar widget that is tied to the HTML5 database for notifications. Each app would run in their own window, with any communication handled through the HTML5 database and/or a manager service. The manager service would handle the background Synergy (aka "cloud") access.
I'd configure the background service to support a different WebOS Synergy Profile per windows profile. That would allow each user on the PC to have access to their WebOS apps. That service would support whatever DRM schema HP settles on to manage application downloads. I'd guess that would be a key-based policy, allowing a single downloadable to work on any device as long as the device has acquired a Synergy Profile-specific unlock code via the manager. So Synergy Profile username + Synergy app code + DRM algorithm = app specific permission code.
Like iTunes, I'd limit the number of devices attached to a Synergy profile. 1 Enterprise tablet, 1 Enterprise phone, 1 personal phone, 1 personal tablet, and 5 PCs. I really expect some Enterprise Synergy service, akin to BBM-type device managment, that has limitations on apps, networking, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if devices registered to an Enterprise Synergy server could be blocked from homebrew or develper mode. Enterprise tablets might eventually support multiple profiles.
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