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WebOS was great. The whole idea of "cards" iOS and Android blatantly stole from it. But even the TouchPad felt underpowered by the time it came out. It was, as
by AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
WebOS was great. The whole idea of "cards" iOS and Android blatantly stole from it. But even the TouchPad felt underpowered by the time it came out. It was, as one reviewer at the time put it, "An iPad 1 competitor in an iPad 2 world."
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoWell, you can say they stole it but Matias Duarte worked on both -- he was a VP for UX and design on WebOS and is now Google's VP of design. (And I don't think he's the only one from Palm to come over to Google, either) Soon after he joined is when Material Design made an appearance.
- hendi_ 7y agoHP killed Palm in 2012; I suppose that's when Duarte changed jobs and went to Google. Material Design was released end of 2014.
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoThere were WebOS-like design changes in Android before the adoption of the official material design spec.