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Re:Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and onl... by lhball on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:24AM (#31609583)
To this day nobody does notifications as well as WebOS did.

IMO the hard-headed refusal to make a touch keyboard even optionally available also contributed to their demise.

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Re:Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and onl... by unwiredben on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:31AM (#31609692)
It was coming... the WindsorNot design was just a slab with no keyboard, IIRC. https://www.webosnation.com/windsornot-webos-slate-smartphon...
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Re:Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and onl... by hajile on Friday June 03, 2022 @02:32PM (#31611990)
I picked up an HP Touchpad during the fire sale and remember being surprised by how good the keyboard was at the time compared to an ipad or android tablet -- especially given how those had been on the market so much longer.
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Re:Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and onl... by qiller on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:22PM (#31611135)
In the phone land at least, TouchPad was a nice tablet
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Re:Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and onl... by hajile on Friday June 03, 2022 @02:38PM (#31612064)
That dual-core 1.2/1.5GHz Scorpio was blazing fast and the 128-bit NEON unit kept them going quite a bit longer than the competing A8 systems.
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