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The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-wouldn't-implement-a-car dept.

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."

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  1. Cards & Multitasking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Steal. by mjwx · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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    Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.