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Re:Palm did it: better experience than Apple by jemmons on Saturday January 10, 2009 @01:08AM (#427717)
The vast majority of apps we saw on mobile devices, you mean. Then the iPhone and Android-based phones came along. If simple frontends are what the Pre plans to focus on, then Palm is still fighting the last war.
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Re:Palm did it: better experience than Apple by bonaldi on Saturday January 10, 2009 @07:34AM (#427906)
Games aside, there's hardly anything on the App Store that couldn't be done in webOS. It's not just "local webpages" -- the SMS and phone apps are written in it, after all.

I think if the choice was between a third all-new alien SDK and luring developers in with HTML+JS, Palm made the right choice.

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