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."

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Re:All of Cydia is a system modification warehouse

[oakgrove]

Like what for example? Without even jail breaking Android, I can take any apk apart, make changes and put it back together. And the Android system itself is open source so I can root my device, download the source code to the operating system and make any changes I want. I have a jail broken iPad and several rooted Android devices. Yeah I can make a few changes to the iPad here and there like replacing spring board and enabling the installation of unsigned apps. Both capabilities of which android has out of the box btw. But I can't even get a decent python install on it. What's available sucks. With Android, I can chroot an entire GNU/Linux install like Debian on it. I'm sure there are a lot of really cool superficial mods that can be done with iOS but can it be run on a wristwatch?