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JWZ had a Pre when WebOS was kind of half-baked. They've made significant gains in responsiveness since then, and solved most (all?) of the things he complaine

JWZ had a Pre when WebOS was kind of half-baked. They've made significant gains in responsiveness since then, and solved most (all?) of the things he complained about. That being said, the system doesn't feel as 'instant' as the iPhone or a fast Android phone. However, you can often get things done faster than competing platforms because the workflow is so streamlined. Moving to a 1Ghz processor like the Snapdragon would probably bring responsiveness up to parity with other systems.

mark_h 17y ago
That's encouraging, thanks.
mortenjorck 17y ago
One area where WebOS is still miles ahead of even iPhone OS 4 is notifications. I was actually a little stunned that Apple didn't even address the issue last week: Notifications in iPhone OS are incredibly primitive; they exist only as modals with no history. You get one, it interrupts what you're doing, and if you get ten, you only see the last one and there's no way to review the other nine. WebOS, on the other hand, displays notifications peripherally and in parallel, it consolidates and organizes them by application, and even has two levels of hierarchy for initial and persistent alerts. It's an order of magnitude more powerful, yet elegant enough that it would be at home on any Apple device.
- danudey 17y ago
  "You get one, it interrupts what you're doing, and if you get ten, you only see the last one and there's no way to review the other nine." Not the case, in my experience. Generally, they pop up one after the other, right when you're about to tap on one, and then you have to either dismiss each one separately, or open the application responsible for the most recent one and hope for the best. Notifications on iPhoneOS are the single worst user experience, and I can't understand why Apple hasn't yet fixed this ridiculous and annoying problem once and for all.

mark_h 17y ago

That's encouraging, thanks.

mortenjorck 17y ago

One area where WebOS is still miles ahead of even iPhone OS 4 is notifications. I was actually a little stunned that Apple didn't even address the issue last week: Notifications in iPhone OS are incredibly primitive; they exist only as modals with no history. You get one, it interrupts what you're doing, and if you get ten, you only see the last one and there's no way to review the other nine. WebOS, on the other hand, displays notifications peripherally and in parallel, it consolidates and organizes them by application, and even has two levels of hierarchy for initial and persistent alerts. It's an order of magnitude more powerful, yet elegant enough that it would be at home on any Apple device.

danudey 17y ago
"You get one, it interrupts what you're doing, and if you get ten, you only see the last one and there's no way to review the other nine." Not the case, in my experience. Generally, they pop up one after the other, right when you're about to tap on one, and then you have to either dismiss each one separately, or open the application responsible for the most recent one and hope for the best. Notifications on iPhoneOS are the single worst user experience, and I can't understand why Apple hasn't yet fixed this ridiculous and annoying problem once and for all.