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The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal
New submitter egparedes points out a post dissecting webOS and highlighting the things it did right, in the hopes that developers for other mobile operating systems will use them as inspiration. Quoting:
"webOS isn't quite dead yet. It's just being open-sourced, which, when it happens to commercial software, often turns out to be the digital equivalent of being reanimated as a walking corpse in a George Romero movie. ... Of course, it's not assured that this is the end of webOS. Maybe open-sourcing it will be the best thing that ever happened to webOS. But maybe it just means that HP doesn't care anymore, and that webOS won't receive much attention anymore. This would be unfortunate, because webOS is one of the few current mobile operating systems that are actually a joy to use. It's been hurt by HP's incompetent management, rather than any egregious faults of its own. The least we can do now is to keep its best ideas alive, even if webOS itself won't make it."
Hands down BEST WebOS feature which absolutely MUST be ported to all other mobile OS's = Card style app MULTI-TASKING, with wipe to close. After using WebOS for 10 minutes, that's the absolute biggest pain in the ass you recognize that exists with every mobile phone OS. Why is task management such a god damn process (no pun) for the competition? Why do I need to start another app just to kill something?
Card style app management is just so intuitive, all the way down to the gestures in controlling them.
Palm sucked at some things for sure... but when that company got something right, they nailed it.
Really?
Seen that photoshop before. The saddest thing about it is that it's a fake
Heres the real photo of the two. You may notice the Galaxy II is larger, has the big words "samsung" written on it and a widget displaying the time and date. If you didn't notice them, you need your eyes examined.
Here is Samsung's official marketing on the S2 Here's the comparison chart between the two
Try linking to something other then CultOfMac. So nice troll, but it's nothing but a troll.
Sorry if reality doesn't fit in with your warped world view, but that's reality for you.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
You've never touched a Tab 10.1, that much is obvious by your complete lack of corroborating evidence.
Wrong. I'm looking at it right now, actually. Here's a fun little bit of trivia about the Tab: MAME will run on it, and it'll properly support the iCade! It'll ALMOST fit in it, although you've got to leave the flap on the top open since it's a little too big.
How do I know, I actually own a Galaxy Tab 10.1, the application draw acts differently...
Actually I was referring to the physical casing of it, i.e. the very thing the 'rounded-rectangle patent' case is all about. Coincidentally that's the bit Samsung's Lawyers couldn't discern, either, which I brought up in my last post. I find it unlikely that you're unaware of this case as it's been plastered around here for ages.
It certainly is amusing isn't it.
You made it even more so...
Ipads dont have rotation lock like the Galaxy Tab....
... see? Yes, they do, and the vanilla apps on the iPad support it better than the same apps on the Tab. I wouldn't mind much, but if you hold the Tab vertically it's a little too easy to hit the stupid sleep button by accident. Oh.. gee, I guess I wasn't lying about touching a Galaxy Tab. Now if we could just get you to touch and iPad... actually maybe you have and you just thought it was a Tab.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
WebOS has the ability to stack and organize cards. CM9 has the "recently used" apps list that you can swipe away, but as far as I know that's all you can do with them. On WebOS you can get to the task cards by swiping up from the bottom bezel anywhere along the bottom. With CM9 you have to hit a specific button.
If I could have android apps on WebOS, I'd be a happy man.