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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 we

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.