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Re:WebOS OSE 2.10 by Sunspark on Sunday April 04, 2021 @10:19PM (#26694681)
Such a shame it didn't survive in the mobile space. I still have a HP Touchpad. WebOS was a really good mobile OS.

After HP wound it down, the main guy behind WebOS, Matias Duarte went on to Android and then implemented Material Design there.

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Re:WebOS OSE 2.10 by Osiris on Sunday April 04, 2021 @10:51PM (#26694827)
The HP Touchpad was such a joy to use. WebOS was really smooth and significantly more responsive than Android tablets at the time.

One specific feature I miss is when switching apps, the app cards were live views of the app, rather than screenshots like in Android.

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Re:WebOS OSE 2.10 by codezero on Sunday April 04, 2021 @10:45PM (#26694795)
It took a decade for apple to bring synergy to iOS, and it was live when the touchpad launched and also simultaneously died :(

webOS multitasking, and gesture navigation were way ahead of their time.

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Re:WebOS OSE 2.10 by addicted on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:14AM (#26695298)
I had the touchpad as well and the OS design was incredible. They were doing things with WebOS that Apple and the like would imitate nearly half a decade later.
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