Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
by rbanffy on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:15PM
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I happen to own a Palm Pre 2 and I have a completely different perception. It's light, small and responsive and the way you use it, the just-type interface, the cards thing, is very natural.
It's really sad.
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
by runjake on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:30AM
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You should try a more popular mobile OS that hasn't completely failed in the market, like WP7 ;)
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
by rbanffy on Saturday August 20, 2011 @12:30PM
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Not yet, but be patient. It will fail.
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
by AppSec on Friday August 19, 2011 @11:16AM
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It was the first mobile OS that handled running multiple applications in a crisp clean way. Notifications were done very well. These are two very key components. Combine that with a hardware keyboard and an easy/common development platform.
It was totally mismanaged.
I was thinking about the Pre3.. Now I'm stuck with the Android or switching carriers for an iPhone. Neither are pleasing choices.
Apart from technical merits, of which there are only a few and they are debatable, one of the values of an operating system is the commitment of the company behind it -- and with clowns like Palm and HP who stopped issuing updates only months after launch, I say fuck them and any carrier who allowed these pieces of shit to pass technical acceptance.
The only reason I've hung onto this thing for 2 years is because I'm determined to make this the phone that loses Sprint my business.